On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 15:22 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote:
> Andre Robatino wrote:
>
> > As per the Fedora 19 schedule [1], Fedora 19 Final Test Compose 2
> (TC2)
> > is now available for testing.
>
> I just tried it. It doesn't work :{(
>
> I had the same problem as with the alpha release.
>
> During the selection of the drive/partition to install to, I select
> the drive that the free partition is on, click done, and a screen
> appears with options. I click custom partitioning (I have f18 and
> data on other partitions on the drive, so I don't want it wiped
> out!).
Guided partitioning (non-custom) does not destroy any existing
partitions or data unless you explicitly request it. If you just used
'Reclaim Space' you could choose to delete only whatever partitions you
don't need. It sounds like your strategy was to pre-create partitions
for F19 in free space and then install to them using custom part: that's
a valid approach, but not necessary if all you're concerned about is
getting an install without destroying any existing data. All you need to
do in that case is leave sufficient unpartitioned space on the drive and
let Fedora install into that - the 'shortest path' through partitioning
will do this - or use the 'Reclaim space' screen to delete only
partitions you do not need.
> At this point, the screen goes blank (10% greyish) and nothing
> happens, even after 10 minutes of waiting. Virtual desktop 1 has
> some message about a "g" value not being set. Otherwise, there
> isn't any sense I can make of it.
Well, that's odd. I haven't seen anything like that. What image did you
use? Was it one of the install images, or one of the lives? If live,
which desktop?
> Well, now we are at TC2 and it still doesn't work. I have wasted
> hours downloading and burning disks. I am going to wait for the
> release.
Just to mitigate the pain a bit, you can get delta ISOs for the DVD
images at https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/deltaisos/ (these
vastly reduce the amount of data you have to download for DVD images),
and you can re-use a USB stick for each test instead of burning a new
silver round disc-y thing (plus USB sticks work *much* faster than
optical disks).
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