On 2012-12-30 22:37 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 23:21 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Next, installation destination: it shows my HD with model number. I click it, but nothing apparent happens. Oooohhhhhhhh, down at the botton below a desert of whitespace, in mousetype, each click of the image alternately selects and deselects several naked words instead of anything that obviously has anything to do with the task at hand. So finally I figure out how to select a partition, and when done specifying mount point and filesystem, the _prior_ partition has been set to / instead of the one I chose, and there's no way to undo it!!!
I don't think you were doing what you think you were doing.
I'd been following the F18-Beta installer - Aaaargh! thread and thought I understood enough to get through it.
That screen is not about 'selecting partitions'. You're just selecting target disks for the install. You can pick what disks should and shouldn't be considered targets for the install, and if you click on 'Full disk summary and options...',
I did click that. There was only one HD to choose from.
you can pick which one gets the bootloader.
Never saw the word bootloader anywhere.
(Post-Beta, you can also select not to install a bootloader here). That is all you can do at this screen. Once you've picked your disks, you click Continue at bottom-right, and you should get a dialog which either tells you you have enough space to install, or you don't have enough space to install. Either way, there is a checkbox marked 'Let me customize disk partitioning', and a drop-down to select the default partition type, LVM, btrfs or raw ext4.
Been there too.
If you check the 'Let me customize disk partitioning' box and hit 'Continue' or 'Reclaim space' (depending which version of the dialog you get), you get into custom partitioning, where you can do pretty much anything you like (though it works very differently to old custom part), including re-using existing partitions, removing them, shrinking them, and creating new ones. The partition type you set in the drop-down will be the *default* type for new partitions you create during custom part, but you can still change them to a different type if you like.
Based upon what I had been reading here, I thought I understood what I was seeing and doing.
If you *don't* check the box, then what happens depends whether you have enough space for an install or not. If you got the 'you have enough
90+% of a 500GB HD was freespace. What I wanted was installation to a partition already created for the purpose.
space' version of the dialog, and you don't check the box, then when you hit Continue, you're done: you'll get an autopart install, using
I never select any installer's automatic anything. I partition, and install my preferred bootloader, before I start, always.
whatever partition type you picked from the drop-down, when you complete the other spokes and start the install. If you got the 'you don't have enough space' version of the dialog, then when you hit 'Reclaim space',
To me, reclaim space = disturb existing. I would never make such a choice intentionally.
you'll get a dialog which lets you delete or shrink some existing partitions to free up space for the Fedora install. Once you've made choices that would free up enough space for install, you can escape this dialog, and again you're done: you'll get an autopart install into the freed-up space.
So what happened in your case depends on what path you chose through the later dialog. It sounds like you misunderstood what each step of the disk selection / partitioning process does. At a guess, you wound up doing an autopart install when you wanted a custom one, but I'm just guessing.
May be. I'm not going to try to use the F18 installer through to completion ever again. As a follow up I did a minimal F17 into the same space after restoring what I had to start with. If it accepts a Yum upgrade to F18, then I'll try running F18, but no more of that vexing F18 installer for me.
I also did a follow-up screenshot to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701190 so you can see my definition of illegible text.
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