On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 14:19 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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. This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879142 . It appears to be basically cosmetic, you can ignore the error. > 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. You did everything right, but it sounds like you weren't given enough confidence in the process. But yes, what you described is exactly the route into custom partitioning. If you don't check 'I don't need help', you get the 'guided partitioning' flow where you get a dialog that lets you delete or shrink existing partitions to free up space for an autopart install. It's not quite that it 'defaults' to automatic partitioning, it's that the checkbox you hit is the 'automatic / custom' delimiter. It sounds like that wasn't made clear enough for you. > 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. So, the basic design of newUI is to visualize not 'disks with partitions on them' but 'a computer with operating systems on it'. This is a change, and it does seem somewhat messy in complex cases, especially with multiply-mounted partitions. However, Mo and the anaconda devs feel that for some setups and some users, the 'computer with operating systems' approach on it is going to be clearer and more usable. AIUI there've been various concepts kicked around for trying to address this, but they all feel messy so far. > 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: Why the (!)? > 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. As David says, this is a bit unclear, as the custom part screen itself shouldn't ever say anything about free space for automatic partitioning. I agree with David that it sounds like, somehow, you left the custom part screen in a way in which the changes made on it weren't applied. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
