Installation problem

[bigmacbb63]

Hi guys,

I have a question. I have a custom built tower with a 160 gig hard drive that has Fedora 13 on it. I just received in the mail Fedora 18 and it won't erase my hard drive. I want to erase the whole hard drive and it is telling me that I don't have
enough hard drive space because Fedora 13 is in on the drive. No Kidding???

Why doesn't Fedora 18 have an option right when it boots up to the graphical interface that gives you the option to erase the whole drive that is screwed up.
It should be alot easier than this. I can't believe I have to go through a whole bunch
of chaos just to install Fedora 18.

There has to be another better way than this. Can someone help me out. This is a nightmare and it's supposed to be the new version? Something is seriously wrong here.

bigmac

---------- Post added at 04:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:09 PM ----------

The installation option says "Your current Fedora software selection requires 3.43 GB of available space. The disks you've selected have the following amounts of free space:

You don't have enough space available to install Fedora, but we can help you reclaim space by shrinking or removing existing partitions.
1.8 MB Free space available for use.
463 MB Free space unavailable but reclaimable from existing partitions.
152.62 GB Space in selected disks reclaimable by deleting existing partitions.

Sorry I did it all wrong and fixed it. I am sorry to all. Thanks for your help.

[nonamedotc]

Originally Posted by bigmacbb63

Hi guys,

I have a question. I have a custom built tower with a 160 gig hard drive that has Fedora 13 on it. I just received in the mail Fedora 18 and it won't erase my hard drive. I want to erase the whole hard drive and it is telling me that I don't have
enough hard drive space because Fedora 13 is in on the drive. No Kidding???
[ ... ]

There are two ways you can try doing this (assuming I understood your post right)

1. Click on "I don't need help" option and click on reclaim space. In the screen that appears, on the left white panel you should see your F13 installation. You would have click on '+' sign inside the panel) to expand the node. Select a specfic partition and click on the '-' sign near the bottom of the left panel.

There will be an check box "delete all root filesystems" (or something similar) enabling which will delete all partition on the HDD.

2. Alternatively, click on 'Reclaim Space" after selecting your hard drive, there will be a list of options - you can specify 'erase' for all the listed partitions.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

---------- Post added at 06:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:21 PM ----------

Guess I was a little late in typing that reply. Glad it worked!

[SomeDamFool]

I'm having a similar problem trying to install F18. Anaconda says there isn't enough disk space, but I have 107 Gb free. When I click the warning to see the details a window opens but there is nothing in it... no disks or partitions showing there.

[george_toolan]

Please be more specific and post the output of fdisk -l

[SomeDamFool]

I'm running F17 on a single physical drive with a home partition.

In Anaconda there is an orange warning triangle on the storage icon. When I open the storage section there is a warning at the bottom of the screen that says I don't have enough disk space for automatic partitioning. There is a link that says (I'm paraphrasing) click to see/edit options.

That opens a small window which is empty. It shows no partitions or options. I need a way to manually partition, but I didn't see that option... or did I miss it?

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders, total 398297088 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b26cf

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 409662 204800 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 409663 398283479 198936908+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root: 96.7 GB, 96737427456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11760 cylinders, total 188940288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap: 2113 MB, 2113929216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 257 cylinders, total 4128768 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol02: 104.9 GB, 104857600000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12748 cylinders, total 204800000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

[gakeraut]

bro.. anyone plzz help.. i have downloaded fedora18-live-i686-desktop.iso via torrent.... i have burned it on a usb. i cannot install it on my pc... there are only two options 1. run live desktop & 2. troubleshooter... plz help me for installation....

[sea]

Originally Posted by bigmacbb63

I want to erase the whole hard drive and it is telling me that I don't have
enough hard drive space because Fedora 13 is in on the drive. No Kidding???

Have you done a backup?
Have you done a backup of everything?
Have you done a backup of your music, videos, documents, settings, contacts?
Is the backup externaly stored, like burnt on cd's/dvd's, external (and afterwards unpluged) harddrive or at least on a usb key?

If all the above is true/done, then, and only then, you may do this at your own risk:
1) Boot the livecd - installation mode
2) Dont know if autologin works
3) open a terminal
4.0) Check the output of lsblk to get your partitions name
4.1) In my case, this would be /dev/sda

5) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
This will wipe your harddisk completly, as it overwrites every bit of the disk with zeros.
Drawback, no recovery, bonus: an empty disk.

---------- Post added at 09:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:33 AM ----------

Originally Posted by SomeDamFool

That opens a small window which is empty. It shows no partitions or options. I need a way to manually partition, but I didn't see that option... or did I miss it?

Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root: 96.7 GB, 96737427456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11760 cylinders, total 188940288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol02: 104.9 GB, 104857600000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12748 cylinders, total 204800000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Yes you most likely missed it.
Its a tiny checkbox, either before you enter partitioning, or right after the error message.
The checkbox is labled simliar, but not exactly like: "instead, let me try custom partitiong".
Its the same dialog, where one can choose from a listbox among lvm, brtfs or something else i had forgotten, once that part is enlarged...

As my own issue with login problems isnt solved yet, i'll reinstall my system and post the screenshot where to click in a few (10-30 mins).
EDIT:
Well, there is the checkbox for 'custom' partitioning, hope you have fun with it.