On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 16:35 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > What I'm trying to do: put F18 Beta on two drives > I want the first 250 GB drive to have /boot /swap and / > I want the second 2 TB drive to have /home > I'm making /boot ext2 and all the other partitions ext4 (I haven't kept > up with all the new filing systems, so maybe this is too backwards > looking - I'm open to suggestions) > > But, filing systems is not my problem > When I tried to do manual partitioning through the installation process, > the screen kept freezing on me - it was random, but only happening in > the manual partitioning pages; the mouse would still move the arrow, but > all selections would become non-responsive I think we have a bug for that, though I can't quite find the reference right now. I believe it has been fixed post-Beta. Could you try again with Final TC1 and see how it goes? > - I had previously been able > to successfully manually partition a single drive with the same DVD > install disk, but, I tried making a new one > In between, I popped in a gparted disk and started it up and used it to > partition my drives the way I wanted > Now, back in F18 anaconda manual partitioning pages with a new DVD > install disk, I've selected each of the partitions, given them their > correct mount points, and selected reformatting - however, pressing > apply doesn't appear to do anything, The button's name can be somewhat misleading. It doesn't actually *perform* the operations you are planning: it just 'applies the changes' in the sense of updating the left-hand pane with any mount point and size changes you've made to the currently-selected partition. All actual partitioning operations take place during the first part of the install process, when you hit the "Begin Installation" button on the hub. > and if I press continue, I get an > error message saying it can't check the storage configuration. That sounds like you somehow failed the custom partitioning exam. F-, see me after class. :) Seriously - can you explain in more detail exactly what options you set in the custom part screen? Maybe we can figure out what's wrong. > Going > back into the configuration pages it first produces the message saying > there isn't enough space. It seems like the reformat command isn't > 'taking' - am I leaving out the obvious? > -- > Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- 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
