Re: Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

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On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 13:58 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Well, no version of Windows yet sets up a GPT disk label, and anaconda
> > is supposed to leave existing MSDOS disk labels around.
> 
> Are you sure about this? 

Of course not!

> What about a >2TB disk present on the system
> and EFI booting? I know at least Win7 supports EFI booting, but I
> don't have a machine that has such a setup to test with :(

I guess that might be supported by some version of Windows, yeah.

> I just did attempt to install F16 Alpha alongside Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
> in a VM, and while Fedora installed successfully and didn't touch the
> NTFS partition, Windows wasn't in the menu. Looking at this, it seems
> to be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678456 which just
> had an update submitted today, will wait for a nightly compose tonight
> and redo tomorrow.

Yes. Or you can do a network install, customize package installation and
add 'which', and it should work (os-prober seems to get pulled in some
other way in a network install).
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