Am 12.03.2013 20:17, schrieb Till Maas:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:47:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote:

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On 03/12/2013 12:41 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote:

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i don't like giving up control over my machine (partitioning), so i won't be upgrading to Fedora 18. i'll watch the web site for a return to sanity.

charles zeitler

Setting aside the drama, you can manually partition F18.

Unless anaconda crashes (live image) or does not recognise the partitions (DVD image). :-/ Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905669

Btw.: Ideas how to install F18 anyhow are welcome

* install a minimum F17 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedo... * install additionally needed software

and if i repeat it again and again: proven by some hundret times yum-upgrades are clean and stable until Fedora finally decides to get unuseable which hopefully does not happen

Btw.: Ideas how to install F18 anyhow are welcome.

I have had some success using gparted LiveCD or LiveUSB (http://gparted.org/) to construct the partition layout including file system labels, then using anaconda (DVD) to "take over" and re-format the then-existing partitions. I use the labels to increase reliability of identification, because /dev/sdX might be reassigned randomly by the kernel at the reboot between gparted and anaconda. Of course one can also use the text console on VT2 (type <ctrl><alt><F2>, with <ctrl><alt><F6> to return) to inspect /dev/disk/by-uuid to verify which partition is which.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Till Maas opensource@till.name wrote:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:47:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote:

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On 03/12/2013 12:41 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote:

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i don't like giving up control over my machine (partitioning), so i won't be upgrading to Fedora 18. i'll watch the web site for a return to sanity.

charles zeitler

Setting aside the drama, you can manually partition F18.

Unless anaconda crashes (live image) or does not recognise the partitions (DVD image). :-/ Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905669

Btw.: Ideas how to install F18 anyhow are welcome.

Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

USE THE NETINSTALL.

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/F...

It works great, and you get the latest packages.

Custom partitioning isn't as easy as it was before but basically here's how you do it:

Click custom partitioning configuration on the main screen -> "no thanks let me do it myself" -> don't let Anaconda create the partitions -> click + sign -> type the mount point (i.e. / and you can also type swap for swap here too).

On a 40GB VM I usually do 2 partitions: 6GB swap partition and the rest to /

Dan

On 03/13/2013 12:17 PM, Stef Walter wrote:

On 03/12/2013 08:17 PM, Till Maas wrote:

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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:47:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote:

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On 03/12/2013 12:41 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote:

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i don't like giving up control over my machine (partitioning), so i won't be upgrading to Fedora 18. i'll watch the web site for a return to sanity.

charles zeitler

Setting aside the drama, you can manually partition F18.

Unless anaconda crashes (live image) or does not recognise the partitions (DVD image). :-/ Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905669

Btw.: Ideas how to install F18 anyhow are welcome.

If I'm honest, I couldn't get F18 Anaconda to install to the partition I wanted either :S

I have multiple Linux OS partitions (Fedora 18, Rawhide, Ubuntu), and one big home directory partition, and I wanted Anaconda to replace one of them.

Eventually I gave up, installed F18 to a VM, and then used rsync + restorecon + grub2-mkconfig (!) to get it into the partition I wanted.

That was my experience as well. LVMs though instead of partitions. I solved it by deleting the LVM I wanted to replace and letting Anaconda create a new LVM using the space from the old one.