The good news first: F-18 Beta DVD ISO image can be booted from harddisk again, so it seems I will be able to test that installation method this time without having to research strange/new/complex entries for GRUB and loading squashfs images from remote locations. However, I'm stuck because of the new installer GUI not letting me finish the manual partitioning. =:-/ First of all, it has become a maze to navigate, although that is not the final problem. For keyboard, timezone, language and basics I've used the "Done" button. So far so good. Many mouse-clicks and much mouse-pointer movement, but at least it accepted my changes. The installer complains about the "installation source" (ISO) without telling me what's wrong. There's a "Verify" button, which doesn't seem to do anything. Partition is what can drive the user mad. It defaults to automatic partitioning, complaining about not enough free space. I've searched for a way to tell it that I want to reuse an existing logical partition. One that has a Rawhide->F18-Alpha on it. Somehow I needed to click "Continue" to reach an error dialog that again tells me there is not enough free space and that the installer will help me, so I tell it I don't need help, I want to partition myself, but I cannot escape that dialog other than with the "Reclaim space" button. Could be dangerous, but I take the risk and click it after changing the partitioning which defaults to "LVM", which should be irrelevant when I partition myself. I reach the partitioning screen, where assigning mount points is everything other than intuitive compared with old Anaconda. Partition names are not displayed anywere, just labels, mount points and names of existing installations. It needs many mouse-clicks to open existing installations (this is a multi-boot desktop) and reuse mount-points via the "Apply changes" button. Again, so far so good, at least I can make the installer use the LUKS encrypted /home and a few /mnt/… targets. I also tell it to reformat (!) the Root ext4 partition, but: It continues to display a yellow warning about not enough free space for automatic partitioning. Help! I can revisit the partitioning screen endlessly without any way to teach it that reformatting means the space will be available for installation. And why does it still refer to automatic partitioning, if I tell it that I partition myself? What am I missing? The begin installation button is greyed out. Aaargh! -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.6.8-2.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 1.84 0.69 0.25 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
