From: Abigail Date: 00:27 on 30 Jul 2005 Subject: Fedora installer --jh06fhy6YTawvwPV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline So, I have this new HP box, and for some reason, I decide to install Fedora on it. The installer asks a few preliminary questions, and then whether I want to do a custom install. I do. So, it lets me partition the disk. Being an old fashioned person, I don't create one large partition, no, I slice and dice myself a /, /opt, /tmp, /var, etc. Fine. Then it asks me which packages I want to install. I select everything - disks are large enough and I can't be bothered wading through the list of packages. A few more questions, and off it goes. It starts creating the file systems. Only after it created them it figures out it doesn't have enough space, claiming it needs slightly more space in / than the partition I created for it. Ok, I think. Nice to tell me now. Why don't you let me select the packages first, then tell me how much space I need so I can partition with the space requirements in mind? Alas, I decide, I now know how much space is needed, and this installer has nice back buttons, so I go back to the partitioning screen and repartition. No way buddy. I can go back a long way, but it stop just before the screen with the partition options. "I already partition the disks, and I'm not letting you do it again, nananana! If you want to partition differently, reboot and start all over again, you sucker!" So I do. Now giving / lots more space, much more than it claimed it needed. Select all packages again. Answer the other questions again. And off it goes. Creating file systems again. And again finding out / isn't large enough. Despite it being much larger than it claimed it needed the first time around. So, did I try a third time? No. Before I could, the disk decided that it hard worked for an hour or so and that it was time to start developing read and write errors. Abigail --jh06fhy6YTawvwPV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6rtqBOh7Ggo6rasRApg3AKCPX9yub8tHlhBS6L+5IHrboxykgwCdEIR8 NJO30pcu9yiZOYa9Y7lzQcQ= =/eZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jh06fhy6YTawvwPV--
From: Robert G. Werner
Date: 07:52 on 30 Jul 2005
Subject: Re: Fedora installer
Abigail wrote:
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> So, did I try a third time? No. Before I could, the disk decided that it
> hard worked for an hour or so and that it was time to start developing
> read and write errors.
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> Abigail
Man, life sucks some times. Sounds like the disk was having symptoms
already (i.e., the ext3 wasn't seeing what it thought it should).
Fedora in the latest release wants to use LVM for the disk. This
would have helped as you can resize partitions on the fly.
Of course, if the disk is bad ...
Still sucks that it wouldn't go back far enough.
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