[GTALUG] Fedora Partitioning

[William Park]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:06:08PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
>    Updating my desktop to Fedora_23 continues to be a challenge.  
> 
>    I figured out how to connect to the network.  Now, it insists on a
>    /boot partition separate from /home.  This appears to be a new
>    feature.  I am trying to upgrade, rather than re-install
>    everything.  I don't recall how I managed to do this, but my root
>    partition is /dev/sda1.  My other partitions are contained in the
>    extended partition /dev/sda2.  
> 
>    Does anybody know how I can use the Fedora installer to split
>    /dev/sda1 into two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6?. I tried
>    deleting /, and creating the two new partitions, and it did not
>    work.  Alternately, is there a way to use my root partition for
>    booting?
> 
>    I have looked at my partition table using fdisk.  It looks like I
>    can delete /dev/sda1 and create the two new partitions sda1 and
>    sda6.  Definitely, this destroys my current setup, and my new
>    install had damn well better work.  Partitions sda1 and sda6 will
>    be next to each other, followed by sda2.  Has anybody done this
>    safely?

I don't think you can mix primary and logical partitions that way.  It
may be easier to create a new logical partition as /boot, though.  

> 
>    I have a Ubuntu DVD here.  When I "Try Ubuntu", I was able to make
>    it claim that my network was connected, but I was unable to ping
>    the machine, or connect the browser to http://www.google.com.  Is
>    this how Ubuntu behaves in demo mode?   The Ubuntu installer seems
>    to over-write boot.  If I play with it, I am forced to re-install
>    something. 
> 
>    Fedora_20 was a dead cinch to install.  How did everything get so
>    complicated?
> 
> -- Howard Gibson hgibson at eol.ca howard.gibson at teledyneoptech.com
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