Fedora installer

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From: Abigail
Subject: Fedora installer
Date: 00:27 on 30 Jul 2005
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So, I have this new HP box, and for some reason, I decide to install
Fedora on it.

The installer asks a few preliminary questions, and then whether I want
to do a custom install. I do. So, it lets me partition the disk. Being
an old fashioned person, I don't create one large partition, no, I slice
and dice myself a /, /opt, /tmp, /var, etc.  Fine. Then it asks me which
packages I want to install. I select everything - disks are large enough
and I can't be bothered wading through the list of packages. A few more
questions, and off it goes.  It starts creating the file systems. Only
after it created them it figures out it doesn't have enough space,
claiming it needs slightly more space in / than the partition I created
for it. Ok, I think.  Nice to tell me now. Why don't you let me select
the packages first, then tell me how much space I need so I can partition
with the space requirements in mind? Alas, I decide, I now know how much
space is needed, and this installer has nice back buttons, so I go back
to the partitioning screen and repartition. No way buddy. I can go back
a long way, but it stop just before the screen with the partition options.

"I already partition the disks, and I'm not letting you do it again, nananana!
 If you want to partition differently, reboot and start all over again, you
 sucker!"

So I do. Now giving / lots more space, much more than it claimed it
needed.  Select all packages again. Answer the other questions again. And
off it goes. Creating file systems again. And again finding out / isn't
large enough. Despite it being much larger than it claimed it needed
the first time around.


So, did I try a third time? No. Before I could, the disk decided that it
hard worked for an hour or so and that it was time to start developing
read and write errors.



Abigail

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