F9 Beta install problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 31 March 2008 17:49:59 Andrew Farris wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I tried to install the Fedora 9 Beta (CD version) onto the ancient laptop
> > that serves as my tester.  The problem started when I got to the
> > partitioning.
> >
> > The drive in question is small, with and existing install of Mandriva
> > using hda5 for / and hda6 for /home.  The choices do not seem to include
> > an option to keep the partitions, simply reformatting one or both, so I
> > tried the custom partitioning.  It asked me where I wanted to install,
> > but simply offered hda.  I don't remember clearly (I'll check later if
> > necessary) but I think there was an Advanced button or similar.  I hit
> > that and got an exception fault.  Of course the network is not set up at
> > that point, so sening it anywhere is out of the question.  Nor could it
> > be saved, as inserting a usb stick is not recognised at that point.
> >
> > I then started afresh, with a usb stick in place at bootup.  Sure enough
> > it was offered as one of the available disks.  However, it was still
> > impossible to save the bug report to the stick.
> >
> > 1 - I'm greatly concerned that it didn't appear to see the existing
> > partitions.
> >
> > 2 - is there any way at all that I could have captured that output?
>
> If you insert a usb drive you can then go to VT2 and mount it manually
> (mkdir, mount) and copy any output, logs, etc, to the flash drive.
>
I didn't think that would be an option, so early in the process.  OK - I've 
just downloaded the LiveCD.  I won't get to install it tonight, but I'll try 
it tomorrow, and have the flash drive ready.

Anne
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