[Leaplist] Install Fedora Core 8

Fri May 2 14:39:39 EDT 2008

Thank you, Patrick.

Well ---  here's the Plan for Partitioning which was in my mind as I 
booted the Fedora Core 8 Installation Disk for the first time in my new 
Computer. The Computer had been built for me with my specific 
instruction NOT to install any Op. System on it. That instruction was 
honored I am sure. LEK built it and they have always done nothing but 
good work for me.

I had planned to use ONLY the Custom Manual Partitioning approach in the 
Installation of fedora Core 8 and that's what I did---------initially.

I was going to  create and assign Mount Points, Size, File system type etc.

I was going to first create  the "/" partition --- size it --- etc. I 
was going to force it to be a Primary Partition.
My next job was to create a "/boot" partition---size it, etc. and force 
it to be a Primary Partition.
The next step in my plan was to create a SWAP partition, size it, etc. 
and force it to be a
Primary partition. (I'm not sure that SWAP has to be a Primary Partition.)

My plan was then to create a  LVM Extended Partition  which would have 
been the 4th Primary Partition. I was going to make it something like 
250 GB in size.
Then I was going to create at least 6 Logical Volume Directories inside 
the Extended # 4 Primary Partition. These were to be named with family 
names. Except for one of the LVM Partitions which was going to be 
/home/william. I was going to make this special
LVM Partition quite large in size since it would hold almost all my 
personal files.

I actually did what I'm saying above. 
EXCEPT---EXCEPT...................

For some reason or other the Fedora core 8 Install Disk ---when it 
offers the screen where the Partition Creations may begin---for some 
reason it lists the Logical Volume Management
option choices First on the Screen.   The choice of "Hard Drives" on my 
computer screen is the last line visible on the screen (unless you 
scroll down, which I am sorry to say, I did not, initially)

So I started right in creating the Primary Partitions as planned but I 
put them in the Logical Volume area-which was of course, now I say, in 
retrospect, ----WRONG!

Then I went ahead and started on down the screen to "Hard Drives."  When 
I began to create partitions there, I was creating partitions named with 
family names and I repeatedly got
error messages on the Screen when I would make Create  Partition Entries 
in the Hard Drives Sector. As you'll divine, I thought I was creating 
LVM Partitions.

I became frustrated and after trying for a long time to delete the 
incorrectly located Primary Partitions and re-creating them in the 
proper Hard Drive  location, the Screen continued to announce Errors 
after each attempt. I spent quite some time attempting what I'm writing 
about now.

Frustrated, I finally gave up, concluding that I was completely out of 
order, and went back and
accepted the "Default Partitioning" and so Default Partitioning is on my 
Hard Drive now. None of the Partitions I had attempted to create were 
present on the system as demonstrated  with the "df -h" 
command........of course.

The problem now is:  There is no room/no space left on the Hard Drive 
since it is completely filled up----100%----with the Default 
Partitioning which the Install Disk gave me correctly when I asked it to.

If I got this same e-mail under other circumstances I'd be bored stiff 
and delete it.

Thanks to all who have put up with this diatribe so far.

See some of you tomorrow. After scanning this, probably no one will show up!

William
W.H. Ferguson
Flagler Beach
W4DSR

patrick wrote:
> Hank Lambert wrote:
>   
>> One option is to run dban on the hard drive with a single wipe.
>>
>> --Hank
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "William H. Ferguson" <williamhf at cfl.rr.com>
>> To: Leaplist at leap-cf.org
>> Sent: 5/1/08 12:24 PM
>> Subject: [Leaplist] Install Fedora Core 8
>>
>> Ladies and Gentlemen:L
>>
>> I  installed Fedora Core 8 on a brand new computer with a 500 GB hard 
>> Drive. The Hard Drive was new and virginal and has never had any Op. 
>> system installed on it previously.
>>
>> I  FAILED  to successfully CUSTOM Partition the Hard Drive and Logical 
>> Volume Extended Primary Partition 4.
>>
>> So I gave up and chose the "Default" Installation which the Installation 
>> Screen says is
>>            "Good for most users."
>>
>> I have since learned a little bit about Custom Installation and went 
>> back to try again.
>> That is, I booted up again with the DVD Fedora Core 8 Installation Disk 
>> in its drive and the Installation program starts right up.
>>
>> But each time I try to set up a new Partition, regardless of the size I 
>> choose for the new Partition,  the program tells me on the screen that 
>> it can't create a Partition of the size I have chosen, even if I reduce 
>> the size to 1 Megabyte!
>>     
> major snippage...to save cyberspace...
>   
>> William
>> Flagler Beach
>>
>>     
>
> I suggest you verify that you are not creating ONLY primary partitions,
> because after you create the fourth one, you are done, and all remaining
> drive real estate is locked up from your use.
>
> So, please ensure that you create only a couple primary partitions, and
> then create the rest of the drive space as logical drives, and create
> all the logical partitions you desire on the remainder of the drive.
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