Description of problem: 10 or 15 minutes into my network install upgrade from fc6 to fc7, I got a popup telling me my fstab line for /dev/hdb2 should refer to a label rather than a device. This is fine, but the subsequent action- a forced reboot- left me with no useful options. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: perform a network install of f7 upgrading from fc6 with a user-created line in fstab pointing to a hard drive other than the one the root partition is on (mine mounted to /opt) Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: My machine was rebooted and I was left to figure out how to fix the fstab. I fixed it by commenting out the line that referred to /dev/hdb2, and the install proceeded normally. Expected results: I would have expected an attempt to manage the partition via a labelling process of some sort, or at the least an attempt to proceed without using this drive since no files were going to be written to /opt so far as I know anyhow, or at the very least giving me the opportunity to edit the file and resume the install, especially since I had downloaded roughly 100 MB for the stage2.img file already and that alone took quite a long time on my network. Additional info:
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