[GTALUG] Fedora Partitioning
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sun Feb 21 13:15:28 UTC 2016
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:00:47PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
> I read up on Fedora and /boot partitions. There was a lot of stuff on MBR versus GPT partitions. From the Fedora DVD installation, I logged in as root and I tried "fdisk -l". This revealed that my 2TB drive with my OS and working partitions, is "Disklabel type: dos". My 500GB Archive drive is "Disklabel type: dos". My new 4TB backup drive is "Disklabel type: gpt".
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> I unplugged my 4TB drive, and the install went fine.
Oh right, since 2TB is the limit for dos partitions.
> Install done, I rebooted, I got the network working and I went "dnf -y update". With the update done, my network stopped working. The network tool claimed it was connecting. From dmesg, I could see that it could see my router's MAC address. Eventually, I set my IPv4 method to "Automatic". "Link-local" was what worked when I did the install.
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> I will post all of this to my website in a couple of days.
So having a gpt disk in the system confuses the fedora installer?
How convinient.
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Len Sorensen
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