F11 won't install to existing partitions

[LinuxHippy]

I'm having a big problem with FC11-x86_64 DVD...it won't perform a fresh install from hard drive or DVD. I checked the iso image with sha256sum and did a media check-all is fine there. The image boots ok but it is having trouble seeing my existing 14 disk partitions...the first has WinXP, one is formatted vfat-32, one is FreeBSD, one is Linux swap, and the rest are ext3 Linux partitions.

I want to install FC11 to 3 partitions that are formatted as Linux partitions and have FC8 on them. The installer keeps stopping with a bug report when I pick use existing Linux partitions. How could I manually copy and install packages on the DVD without the Anaconda Installer?

[mrous]

Hello!

The easiest thing to do would be to manualy edit the partitions...
Instead of picking "use existing linux partitions", select "create custom layout"(or something like that I use a localized install so i'm not sure what it is in english)... Then just edit the partitions you want to use and set the mount points...

cheers!

[tomiro]

Have you tried the 64 bit Live Installable CD?.

The Live CD installer is a different animal all together, and if you are installing for general desktop use is as easy as it gets. It won't have as many installation options along the way, but does the basic install quite well...or at least it has here on three machines thus far.

[LinuxHippy]

I think my partitioning on my drive got messed up somewhere...may have been a while ago. My FC10 install DVD doesn't see all of my partitions and it did 6 months ago. I'm thinking about restoring my drive to the 1 200 GB XP partition that was on there and then shrinking that partition back down to 16 GB where it is now and then making Linux partitions out of what's left with the new system rescue cd

[LinuxHippy]

Before I wipe my drive I want to try the Live 64 Bit cd...by the 1 cd size it appears to be 1/5 or 1/6 the size of a full install. I've already downloaded the 6 cds and the DVD iso. Is there any way to get packages of these if the Live CD installs ok?

[tomiro]

Originally Posted by LinuxHippy

Before I wipe my drive I want to try the Live 64 Bit cd...by the 1 cd size it appears to be 1/5 or 1/6 the size of a full install. I've already downloaded the 6 cds and the DVD iso. Is there any way to get packages of these if the Live CD installs ok?

All the packages in the installation CD set and DVD are not installed. They are designed to allow you to install a server, different desktops, and various other common packages, but we normally only install around 1/4 of the packages available on the installation CD set or DVD. The Live CD uses a compressed file system so is able to pack in nearly 2GB of data.

I suspect there is a way to use the packages on the CD, but would suggest just doing the Live CD install then running the updates. It's around 353MB of updates (as of yesterday when I installed F11 on my Wife's PC). If you install Presto first it'll be somewhere around 34MB that will need to downloaded to apply all the updates.

If you are not familiar with Presto the end of this page gives a decent rundown:
http://on-disk.com/cms/index.php?wik...edora_11_page3

[LinuxHippy]

I now have FC11-x86_64 installed. I installed (finally-after 3 days) with the DVD. Turns out one of my partitions was shrunk somehow recently and the extra 2.5 GB of space had become free space. That's a big chunk of space but now big enough to install FC11 and I think that's why the installer kept giving me an error. Using the installer for Ubuntu 9.04 I saw this (they have a really nice installer, BTW) and then made the shrunk partition bigger to reclaim the 2.5 GB with the latest system rescue cd (I also made the end of my drive empty with 23 GB where FC11 finally installed-I chose install to free space on the FC11 installer and then added partitions to /etc/fstab...my /home partition I formatted to ext4).