On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:37 +0200, David Jansen wrote: > I ran into an issue with the installation of Fedora 13. What I was > trying to do was this: install the new version, choose for a custom > layout of the partitions, and then have system stuff like / and /usr > reformatted, but leave /usr/local, /opt, /home and /data partitions > alone to preserve own data and software not installed from rpms. > This is how I have done system upgrades/reinstalls fro years. > > However, with Fedora 13, when I choose the custom install, all my > partitions are marked as type "unknown" and all I can do is select them > and format them, or abort the installation (which I did, of course). > This happens to all partitions, ext3, ext4, swap, and ntfs. > > Is this a known issue (couldn't find anything about it), a boot option I > have missed, or perhaps something specific to the 2 computers where I > tried the installation ?? > > If these partitions were on another disk, I understand I can skip the > disk as a data storage disk which isn't used in partitioning, but > unfortunately, it's not on a separate disk. So, what to do? > > David Jansen > Hi I have done two installs of F13 onto single ext4 partitions (No RAID) and did not have your problems. I just had to select the "/" partition and format it I did not set either a "/boot" or swap partition. All my other partitions were shown but left alone. I used expert and askmethod as options when booting from DVD and installed from NFS mount I seem to remember selecting custom layout at some stage John -- 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
