On 06.06.2013 14:35, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 06/06/2013 05:34 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> On 06.06.2013 10:30, Gerhard Gappmeier wrote:
>> Unfortunately the installer does not allow to create this kind of partition
>> layout. With F17 this was possible.
> Yes, it was possible in F17. Now it isn't :) It's kind of improvement in
> installer.
>
>> 2.) Installing F17 and upgrade using fedup. This fails. Seems like fedup is
>> not able to handle this layout.
> fedup is not touching anything in partition layout. (someone on devel@
> group stated this recently) fedup downloads packages, new kernel and
> "installation" initrd. Then it uses yum/rpm do upgrade OS. So it should
> be possible to upgrade your machine.
>
>> 3.) Kickstart: It looks like this is most likely the way to get it working.
>> But I was not able to write a working kickstart script. The online doc is not
>> enough for that. I found same kickstart examples using Google, but these
>> didn't work either.
> This is the only chance to do what you want. I also wait with
> upgrade/reinstall on some of my boxes because I can't play with
> kickstart to learn how it works. I have no spare box to destroy for one
> day. You can see content of kickstart-ks.cfg in /root directory of your
> Fedora 17 install and use it for new installation.
It should be called as 'anaconda-ks.cfg' in your '/root/' directory.
Sorry, my fault.
Mateusz Marzantowicz