Bug 1010017

Description of problem:

Trying to install on a 1/2T Passport USB3 from a Fedora 19 DVD.

In short I can't:
   - create a custom install target partitions
   - assume a preconfigured install target partitioning
   - delete existing install target partition maps

All of these options lead to completely erroneous error messages and crashes...


Anadonda (19-30.13.1) refuses to let me use custom partitioning.  I tried two approaches, using the interface to create custom partitioning and pre partitioning the disk on another linux box.

In both cases, I have swap, boot, root(/) and home created and assigned as target partitions, anaconda then complains that there is no room to install.

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Your current Fedora software selection requires 6.74 gigabytes of available space including 2.89
GB for software and ....blah blah

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I've told it to reformat, but there is still a preserve flag on it that crashed anaconda when I try to remove it.  Anaconda Crashes when I delete all partitions on the drive and try to recreate the partition table. (2x)

Installing on a usb3 drive on a Mac Air.  Sorry, I don't have the confidence in this installer to let it do what it wants, and it refuses to do what I want.

This is a showstopper for installing fedora 19 in this way.  It appears to be a my way or the highway thing.

(Also no wireless because if incomplete connection interface, but this has been deemed not a bug)


How reproducible:

Try to create a custom partition table (non LVM) in a usb3 drive (WD Passport 1/2T) and install to it.  Anaconda says there is no room in spite of having a partition table that looks like this:

/home 363GB sdb4
swap 4GB sdb2
/boot 10GB sdb1
/ 100GB sdb3 (insists on reformat, although it is clean, still, no joy)

Manipulation of the partitioning leads to crashes.