Re: KDE-4 installation on hard disk

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Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I have KDE-4 Fedora on a USB stick,
> and it is running fine from this on my laptop.
> 
> I thought as an experiment I would try to install it
> on the hard disk (on an empty partition).
> So I clicked on the "Install to Hard Drive" button after booting.
> 
> The partition I want to use is an LVM partition.
> So I choose "Create custom layout".
> The LVM partitions are shown,
> but I am not able to enter mount points for these,
> even after opening another desktop,
> and activating them.
> The LVM partitions are described as Type "foreign".
> According to lvdisplay their LV status is "Not available".
> When I try "mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg/home" (one of the LVM partitions)
> I am told "The device apparently does not exist".
> 
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

Actually, I solved the problem easily enough -
I used fdisk to change the type of the partition - /dev/sda4 -
holding the LVM partitions to "Linux LVM".

However, KDE-4 Fedora proved very unstable.
The cursor hung almost at once - I mean I could not move it with the mouse -
on my ThinkPad T43.

If my experience is anything to go by,
it is probably better not to publicize this distribution.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland


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