On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 10:17 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > Entirely possible, but I've been doing custom partitioning since FC1 and > I have generally been able to work through interface quirks. One thing I > really don't like about the new manual partitioning interface, unless > I'm missing something, is that you must select the drives you want to > use, and then, it only displays total size of the combined drives. There > doesn't seem to be a way to define partitions on each drive separately Not exactly, but you can define which drive a partition should go on: create the partition, then hit the 'Gears' icon (with the + and - icons) at the bottom of the left-hand pane. You can define the target partition from that dialog. > and there is no running total of space left on individual drives as you > create partitions This part is correct, yeah. > Anyway, I'll try to remember the options I set - I had these two drives > which I partitioned using the Gparted Distro - they were set up just I > described in my opening comments of my initial post. When I then booted > the F18 beta and went into custom partitioning it saw those partitions > and informed me that all my drive space was in use; I then went to the > reclaim space page where I selected each partition, gave it a mountpoint > and label, and ticked the format box; I even did that with the swap > partition - each time, when I clicked on the continue button, I got the > error about checking storage configuration... What mount points did you assign exactly? Was the disk formatted as GPT or MS-DOS? > There aren't really a > whole lot of options - someplace else, there was a dialog about > partitioning type offerning LVM, BRTS, and regular, and that was set to > regular (I might have those term not quite right). > > Anyhow, I'll get that Final TC1 and try that first, next. Is that > available now? Yes. If you still have trouble, please attach program.log and storage.log from /tmp , those should explain where the trouble is. Thanks! -- 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
