I came up with a way to install fedora 18 on my main system without any worries that the cryptic partitioning interface might wind up wiping out my system. I liked it so much I may install fedora this way from now on. Here's my technique: 1. Install f18 in a brand new virtual machine. 2. Shutdown the VM 3. Mount the virtual filesystem with guestmount. 4. Format the real partition I want to install on. 5. rsync the guestmount to the new empty partition 6. edit the grub.cfg and fstab and wot-not in the new copy (to deal with UUID, root=, etc). 7. chroot into the new parition and run grub-install 8. Boot the new partition and see that it works. It works great. I can leave my system up and running while doing the install. I can feel pretty darn safe that anaconda inside the VM won't be clobbering anything outside the VM. A little tricky to find all the things that need to be edited, but I can record that info so it will be simpler in the future. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
