Fedora 16 Alpha discussion thread - Page 4

steelaworkn · #46 30th August 2011, 07:27 PM

I won't be an Alpha or Beta tester, but I learn a lot from these discussions. I'm waiting to install 16 on Thanksgiving weekend. Kind of a tradition for the last few years. But keep up the good work.

hamdanim · #47 30th August 2011, 07:31 PM

What are the programs supported by fedora16
thanks

downer · #48 31st August 2011, 03:55 AM

Is it normal that the install from a live DVD can't make the root partition as btrfs and only the home partion can be made btrfs? The install disk kept complaining since the install media used ext3, that the root partition can also only be ext3. I tried formatting the entire hard drive as btrfs, but that didn't help. I know btrfs is still experimental and maybe still has no disk check.

#49 31st August 2011, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by hamdanim

What are the programs supported by fedora16
thanks

what do you mean as in " programs supported by F16 ? can you be a bit more pacific

sonoran · #50 31st August 2011, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by steelaworkn

I'm waiting to install 16 on Thanksgiving weekend.

There's an easy turkey joke here, but I don't want to jinx F16. Hoping for the best.

**AdamW** · #51 31st August 2011, 07:31 PM

downer: yes, it's normal. The live installer works by dumping a partition image onto the hard disk, basically: it doesn't format a partition then install packages to it one by one. That's the reason for the restriction.

downer · #52 1st September 2011, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by AdamW

downer: yes, it's normal. The live installer works by dumping a partition image onto the hard disk, basically: it doesn't format a partition then install packages to it one by one. That's the reason for the restriction.

Thanks, never tried formatting from a live image before and never seen format options for live images.

martyfelker · #53 1st September 2011, 06:06 PM

The only reason I used the live installer is that it was the only ISO that booted (and yes I tried to burn several std ISO and checked them). While it does copy the image anaconda does offer to select the / and /boot partitions - else somebody would wipe their Windows partition and might not be happy. If I selected to change the location of the boot loader to a partition rather than the MBR Ananconda didn't complain but the install failed as the install bootloader step. . Hence I had no choice. I'll see if the recently realized TC! Alpha will boot - however I'm not in a rush as I've completely updated Alpha RC! to the current distribution release and its working great along with a multboot configuration. My machine is strictly experimental so if something fails I'll just wipe it (keeping the Logical Volumes) and re install.