Hi all,
Recently I'm stucked with multiboot.
I have a disk with following partition:
sd1. 157GB NTFS of Win8 sd2. 55GB including:
sd5. 500M /boot sd6. 4GB /swap sd7. 50GB BTRFS Fedora 18
sd3. 55GB not parted sd4. 32GB not parted
Now I want to install Fedora 17 on sd3 or sd4, but I don't know howto. From Anaconda I failed evrrytime for not enough space or some other reasons.
So any hints availabe? I think two lvm is the way of installing dual Fedora, isn't it?
Thanks everyone in advance!
Christopher Meng <cickumqt <at> gmail.com> writes:
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sd3. 55GB not parted sd4. 32GB not parted Now I want to install Fedora 17 on sd3 or sd4, but I don't know howto. From
Anaconda I failed evrrytime for not enough space or some other reasons.
So any hints availabe? I think two lvm is the way of installing dual Fedora,
isn't it?
I was hoping someone else who actually remembered how to do this would respond to your question. That hasn't happened so I'll give it my best shot.
I run Fedora from a 400GB external hard disk for my laptop (long story). I more or less divide the disk between the current Fedora release and the previous release. That way, by the time the previous release is no longer supported, there is a new release to try and the current release is relatively stable. So, currently, I have FC 18 on one partition set and FC 17 on the other.
It took several tries to find where the option is hidden but there is a button on option of some kind on the partition screen that allows you to install over existing partitions. Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly where it is or the label. I just remember that it wasn't at all obvious.
Restart your installation. Poke around on the partitioning screen. There is a well hidden option for installing to existing partitions. Once you find that, you get the familiar installer partition tool for assigning partitions to mount points and the option to format the partition or not.
Cheers, Dave
Thanks, David.
Maybe f17 installer is easier for me. I never install dualboot Linux on one hard disk. I always test such things on my slc usb3.0.
Back to the title. As I used yesterday, f18 anaconda partitioning interface just made me more confused.
I'll try f17 anaconda to see if things can go along.
And, fedoraforum suggest me using ext4 instead of lvm.
Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2013, Christopher Meng sent:
And, fedoraforum suggest me using ext4 instead of lvm.
If you're never going to span a partition across more than one drive (which can be dangerous - if one of the drives fail, you lose what's on both of them), and if you're never going to use the snapshot feature of LVM to duplicate one of its volumes, then there's little point in using LVM on your drive. They would appear to be the two main reasons to deliberately choose to use LVM.
On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 01:01 +1030, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2013, Christopher Meng sent:
And, fedoraforum suggest me using ext4 instead of lvm.
If you're never going to span a partition across more than one drive (which can be dangerous - if one of the drives fail, you lose what's on both of them), and if you're never going to use the snapshot feature of LVM to duplicate one of its volumes, then there's little point in using LVM on your drive. They would appear to be the two main reasons to deliberately choose to use LVM.
---- actually, I have had an occasion (granted just one) where I had a really large (4TB) LVM and added more drives to the system and created a new 'PV' but I joined them together as a single 'logical' volume. I believe that is what you are referring to called 'spanning'.
It was a breeze and this was a server with RAID 10 so there's little risk when you lose a drive.
LVM's provide a lot of added flexibility at the price of complexity.
Craig
On 03/01/13 06:39, Christopher Meng wrote:
Thanks, David.
Maybe f17 installer is easier for me. I never install dualboot Linux on one hard disk. I always test such things on my slc usb3.0.
Back to the title. As I used yesterday, f18 anaconda partitioning interface just made me more confused.
I'll try f17 anaconda to see if things can go along.
And, fedoraforum suggest me using ext4 instead of lvm.
Distinguish the EXT4(filesystem) with the LVM(logical volume management) on top of it. ;) With regular backups you're fine. http://goo.gl/7J7Kh
poma
Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2013, Craig White sent:
I have had an occasion (granted just one) where I had a really large (4TB) LVM and added more drives to the system and created a new 'PV' but I joined them together as a single 'logical' volume. I believe that is what you are referring to called 'spanning'.
It was a breeze and this was a server with RAID 10 so there's little risk when you lose a drive.
Yes, that kind of thing was what I meant by spanning (not sure if it's meant to be the term, or just how it's been described in the past).
I have wondered, that if you're already doing RAID, can it provide the same ability? I'm guessing that if you wanted to increase the size of a RAID, it probably entails adding more than one drive at a time.
LVM's provide a lot of added flexibility at the price of complexity.
Always seems to be the case...
Christopher Meng wrote:
Hi all,
Recently I'm stucked with multiboot.
I have a disk with following partition:
sd1. 157GB NTFS of Win8 sd2. 55GB including:
sd5. 500M /boot sd6. 4GB /swap sd7. 50GB BTRFS Fedora 18
sd3. 55GB not parted sd4. 32GB not parted
Now I want to install Fedora 17 on sd3 or sd4, but I don't know howto. From Anaconda I failed evrrytime for not enough space or some other reasons.
So any hints availabe? I think two lvm is the way of installing dual Fedora, isn't it?
Boot off fc17 install, and put fc17 on sd3. Ignore all the rest completely. When you have your fc17 installed and booted, only then you make the rest bootable by asking grub2 to find it:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
That should find lots of stuff for you.
Thanks.
In fact my root confusion is f18's anaconda... I don't know how to part when I faced it.
Now I use f17 anaconda and everything seems ok.
Thanks all very much! 在 2013-3-3 AM9:26,"Bill Davidsen" davidsen@tmr.com写道:
Christopher Meng wrote:
Hi all,
Recently I'm stucked with multiboot.
I have a disk with following partition:
sd1. 157GB NTFS of Win8 sd2. 55GB including:
sd5. 500M /boot sd6. 4GB /swap sd7. 50GB BTRFS Fedora 18
sd3. 55GB not parted sd4. 32GB not parted
Now I want to install Fedora 17 on sd3 or sd4, but I don't know howto. From Anaconda I failed evrrytime for not enough space or some other reasons.
So any hints availabe? I think two lvm is the way of installing dual Fedora, isn't it?
Boot off fc17 install, and put fc17 on sd3. Ignore all the rest completely. When you have your fc17 installed and booted, only then you make the rest bootable by asking grub2 to find it:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
That should find lots of stuff for you.
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