I'll try to keep this short without glossing over too much. Installation on HP 8510w workstation laptop (intel Core2Duo w/ 256MB Nvidia Quadro 540M) - Replaced existing F12 install completely (I don't keep important stuff on it and I dual boot w/ XP for work). - Flawless Now on to the messy one... Homebuilt AMD AM3+ w/ AMD Kuma 2.7GHz X2 w/ Nvidia 7600GT 256MB. - Two HD's - /dev/sda w/ XP on first partition, 200MB /boot, and remainder in LV for / & swap - /dev/sdb whole disk LVM for /home - Tried to boot DVD (worked on laptop), would not boot to it. - Copied kernel and initrd from disk to /boot and add to Grub menu, works and finds DVD install media. - Used custom disk layout - Added both disks at initial screen and chose /dev/sda for "Install Target" - removed all linux partitions on /dev/sda - Setup boot to be 1GB (instead of original 200MB) for future proofing. - Used remainder for / and swap. - Everything installed fine. Now I reboot into the system and everything seems OK until I try to copy some additional stuff to /boot (System rescue CD to add to my Grub Menu) which was the other reason to make /boot 1GB (in addition to room for preupgrade). I can't copy it over because I don't have enough free space. Weird. Take a look at the size of /boot and it's still at the original 200MB. Apparently it formatted /boot, /, and swap but did not remove and create the partitions as I told it to. Now it gets messy. I decide to try Gparted in systemrescue CD and shrink my XP partition 800MB and grow /boot 800MB. It fails part of the way through trying to "move /dev/sdb2 to the left". I reboot multiple times trying to do it bit by bit because apparently the kernel doesn't want to re-read the partition table. No-go. Finally I say screw-it and decide to reinstall. The only thing I'm out is the time and the updates I had already downloaded. I have to create a USB installer since my /boot is borked and I still can't boot to the DVD directly. No problem. Now when I get to the point in the installer where it loads the repository data it gives me the dreaded "Missing ISO 9660 image (image #1 missing)". I know it found the install media so what gives? Anyway, after ALOT of screwing around I try symbolic linking the ISO anywhere that looks promising. Finally I have to unmount the USB disk (/mnt/isodisk or something like that) and when I mounted the ISO file there it finally allowed me to continue. I have a copy of the mtab during the install at home if it would help. Last issue, probably related to using my existing /home but I'm not sure how. All my window decorations looked funny even though I did not customize it under F12. I look at the gnome appearance preferences and it says that I'm missing something called "Nodoka". I finally find the packages and install them and now it looks like it should, but why those packages were not installed already I don't know. Other than that, everything went fine! Not complaining, it is a release candidate afterall, but just wanted to share my experience and hopefully someone can shed some light on what happened and hopefully fix it, or at least help someone else if they run into the same problems. Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
