What the "H" gives with FC11 install

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue May 12 16:59:42 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:31 -0400, 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 ?

Make a separate ext3 partition for /boot and use ext4 for the rest if
you like. This is discussed explicitly in the ext4 documentation. (It's
also a good idea in general to have a separate /boot partition.)

poc




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