[fedora-livecd-list] liveinst creating wrong partition

Douglas McClendon dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Mon Nov 12 09:08:45 UTC 2007


dzho002 wrote:
> Hi folks, 
> 
> I created a Fedora Core 8 live CD using the
> livecd-creator tool successfully. It boots up fine
> from a USB pen drive and is able to install to hard
> drive. But there is a problem with the size of "/"
> partition (dev/sda2) on the hard disk. The commands df
> and fdisk report different size. 

It will take more investigation to nail down the cause, but this is 
clearly due to the resize2fs from anaconda's livecd.py not running 
correctly.

> I created the FC8 live cd on a FC7 system. 

While not a fix for the bug, if results are what you are after, by all 
means, try building the same thing from an F8 system.  I suspect you 
won't hit the bug.

-dmc




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