On 8/1/09, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: > >> X is fine with the F11 live cd, too. > > So why not install from this? To mention just one reason: the installation process dies with an ugly sigsegv. I can dig up the bugzilla entry for you if you're interested... > How did you run it without a CD, incidentally? livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdd1 where /dev/sdd1 is where the usb stick lives. After this, it's bootable. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo. >>> used later. So I had to go back and choose the 3rd option ("use all >>> free space" or some such). I didn't know it meant automatic >> >> No, it must have been the "use entire drive" option. > > I always use the last (Custom Install) option. Me too. Except that there wasn't one, probably because of the text-mode installation. > I have zero faith in Anaconda's partitioning. Agreed. What is especially frustrating here is that there was no need for partitioning. The old one (smallish /boot, and a root partition) would've been fine. Except that the installer thought (wrongly) that there wouldn't be enough space. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines