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
