What the "H" gives with FC11 install

[James Laska]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:53 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:39 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:29 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > As Bill suggests, '/boot' must be a separate partition at this time.
> > 
> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-partitioning-general.html
> 
> That's what I'm saying. It *is* a separate partition, just not a primary
> partition. Nothing on the above page suggests that it needs to be
> primary.

Gotcha, misread your earlier comment.  As other mails in this thread
suggest, I'm somewhat familiar with restrictions on the placement of
'/boot' (primary vs extended), but I cannot find any documentation to
support that.

As Rahul suggested, if we can line that up, it seems reasonable to
request an update to the installation guide (along with a supporting
link).  

Thanks,
James


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