F9 Beta install problem

[Andrew Farris]

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.

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