Partitioning Options

[Trapper]

I note that the rawhide image for 06-09-2009 is quite limited when it comes to partitioning during install. Entire disk, replace a linux system or free space. No custom. Is this the norm in rawhide? I don't recall it way back when I did an F11 rawhide install. I also really don't like it when I'm told the partitioner is about to write to disk without informing me specifically what it's going to do. That's a "No" reply from me, always.

[SlowJet]

I note that the rawhide image for 06-09-2009 is quite limited when it comes to partitioning during install. Entire disk, replace a linux system or free space. No custom. Is this the norm in rawhide? I don't recall it way back when I did an F11 rawhide install. I also really don't like it when I'm told the partitioner is about to write to disk without informing me specifically what it's going to do. That's a "No" reply from me, always.

The offical F11 iso are under Description here
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

I use the custom almost excursively, so I would be very upset too.
But I have not seen a missing Custom choice in the dropdown box?

What I have noted, from myself and other, is a not scrolling down or up to see more choices.

SJ

P.S. F11 rawhide does not exit any more. It is now F12

[Trapper]

Hi SlowJet,

I was attempting to install the rawhide development iso from 06-09-2009. There's no custom partitioning choice and no scrolling to one. I did fail to mention that this is a text mode install because anaconda cannot start X even if I select the basic video driver for the install.. That's interesting too seeing that image.iso's I installed in the past never had this difficulty. Whatever, I guess I will drop on an install of F11 on this test box and switch to the rawhide repo. Thanks!

[SlowJet]

Hi SlowJet,

I was attempting to install the rawhide development iso from 06-09-2009. There's no custom partitioning choice and no scrolling to one. I did fail to mention that this is a text mode install because anaconda cannot start X even if I select the basic video driver for the install.. That's interesting too seeing that image.iso's I installed in the past never had this difficulty. Whatever, I guess I will drop on an install of F11 on this test box and switch to the rawhide repo. Thanks!

First try the boot.iso for development.
it will save you a couple of GB's of updates.

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/i386/
Don't forget to scroll down. :)

SJ

[Trapper]

First try the boot.iso for development.
it will save you a couple of GB's of updates.

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/i386/
Don't forget to scroll down. :)

SJ

I think we maybe have some miscommunication here. The development boot.iso is what I have been attempting to use. I was trying to install the boot.iso dated 06-09-2009. This morning I downloaded the boot.iso for 06-13-2009. I get the same results. I have nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 video. The installer only allows me to install in text mode. It won't even allow me the gui using the vesa driver. In text mode I am limited to these partitioning choices: Entire disk, Replace a linux system, free space. That's it. There are no other choices to scroll down too. I already have other stuff on this box and I do not want to use the entire disk, replace anything or use all the free space but I'm given no option to clue in the installer as to what I want.

[SlowJet]

Well, according to the anaconda log
The f12 version is 6 updates behind the F11 GA release.
I have noted a copule of other F11 packages that are newer than F12 when doing an rpm update also.
I would guess it is just the delay in the meetings time, the weekend, and the mad GA push along with F11 updates.
I has only been 5 days.

Changelog * Tue Jun 02 2009 Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com> - 11.5.0.59-1 - Do not show disabled repos such as rawhide during the install (#503798). (jkeating)
* Sun May 31 2009 David Lehman <dlehman@redhat.com> - 11.5.0.58-1 - Pass --force to lvresize so it doesn't ask for confirmation. (dlehman) - Fix a typo in action sorting for resize actions (fs vs. device). (#501000) (dlehman) - Sending translation for French (mrtom)
* Thu May 28 2009 Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com> - 11.5.0.57-1 - Create and use unique ids for Device instances. (#500808) (dlehman) - Adjust remaining PartitionDevices' names after removing a partition. (dlehman)
* Tue May 26 2009 Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com> - 11.5.0.56-1 - Ensure matching rootfs type to live type with autopart (#501876) (katzj)
* Tue May 26 2009 Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com> - 11.5.0.55-1 - Fix blank network device descriptions in the loader. (#501757) (notting) - Make sure the right _isMigratable gets used for Ext3FS (#501585). (clumens)

* Tue May 19 2009 Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com> - 11.5.0.54-1 - We are not guaranteed to have a partedDisk in the udev code (#501556, - The location of the options wiki page has changed. (clumens) - Disable BETANAG. (clumens) - Install a en_US.UTF-8 locale in the first stage image. (notting) - Reset font when changing language. (notting) - Set locale to en_US.UTF-8 when initializing the console. (notting)

* Mon May 18 2009 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 11.5.0.53-1 - LVMVolumeGroupDevice stores pesize in MB, kickstart expects it in KB. (dlehman) - Don't schedule a format resize if reformat scheduled. (#500991) (dlehman) - Deactivate md arrays regardless of state if the device is present. (#496441) (dlehman) - Lame hack to make sure --size= is never 0 (#500905). (clumens) - Don't filter out partitions that haven't been allocated (#500932). (clumens) - Write out PE size as an integer, since that's what anaconda wants (#501049). (clumens) - Set clearPartType to None on preupgrade too (#499321). (clumens) - Fix indentation of line to remove cancelled actions from the list. (#500932) (dlehman) - Consider active-idle state of md device as accepatable status of device (#497407) (rvykydal) - Fix detection of cciss disks (#499408) (dchapman) - Get existing fs size for xfs. (dcantrell) - Get existing fs size for ntfs. (dcantrell) - Get existing fs size for jfs. (dcantrell) - Get existing fs size for ext2, ext3, and ext4. (dcantrell) - Compute existing filesystem size using fs info utility. (dcantrell) - Do not allow users to migrate ext4 to ext4. (dcantrell) - Correct handling of formats on encrypted preexisting LVs. (#499828) (dlehman) - Ignore unrecognized device-mapper devices we find. (#499967) (dlehman) - loader: Mount /tmp as tmpfs not ramfs so we can swap it out (ajax) - format.mountpoint -> lvd.mountpoint (#500913). (clumens) - Treat the loop labels as devices without a label.(#493219) (jgranado) - Add the partition table partition after initializing (#498602). (clumens)

SJ