What the "H" gives with FC11 install

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:40 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> > Trying to make custom partitions in Fedora 11 install, from a Fedora 8 
> > install
> > /
> > /home
> > swap
> > 
> > It won't let met make / as ext4 , because it says can't make ext4 as 
> > boot partition.
> > So I change it to ext3, and it says "your / partition does not match the 
> > live image you are installing from. It must be formatted as ext4".
> > 
> > What The "h" are they doing now ?
> > 
> You need a separate /boot as ext[23] to boot, and it must be a partition. I 
> *think* it must be a primary partition, as the installer tells me I have not 
> enough free space for a boot partition, when I cleared 150MB for an extended 
> partition.

On my netbook I have /boot on an extended partition.

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