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Description of problem: This may have been fixed already. I tried to do an install from the Xfce spin CD ROM for F19 i386. The disk has Windows on /dev/sda1 and I had partitioned /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, and /dev/sda5 to use in the new installation. Choosing the manual option for disk partitions. Shows "Unknown" with all the partitions on the disk. I selected one of them to make it a partition on the new system. Couldn't do anything with it - the right hand side of the pane is all grayed out. The help screen says there is supposed to be a button to change the selected partition, but it ain't there. I was able to work around it by first doing a mke2fs on the partitions - then it let me select and change them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-19.30.13-1.fc19.i686 How reproducible:Always, I guess Steps to Reproduce:see description above 1. 2. 3. Actual results:can't assign desired partitions to the system being installed Expected results: The change button mentioned in the help screen should be there, or without it should be able to change a non-formatted but correctly labelled partition. Additional info:
This appears to be working in F20, though I don't know if anything has actually changed for this case. To use an unformatted partition, you first need to check the "reformat" box and then select a filesystem type, and after that you can set a mount point. The reason for this is that when we see a partition without a recognizable filesystem, we assume that there may be data but that we don't know what it is, which is why the filesystem type is initially set to "unknown"