Ubuntu installation works fine, but Fedora can't seem to partition multiple drives in a logical volume, the partioning step fails. Attached is the anacdump.txt file generated.
Created attachment 224831 [details] anacdump.txt generated when the partion step fails.
What did you previously have installed? Are there any kernel errors on tty4?
I had Fedora 6 installed before on a 40gig drive, and I added a new 160gig drive to the system to compliment the 40g drive. It doesn't seem to matter if I only use a single drive (40g or 160g) the same error results. No noticable error messages show up. The installation freezes in either text or GUI mode. Would error messages be written to a log somehow if the partition can't be removed? I guess I'm not sure how I could trap these errors other than supply the anacdump.txt file. I am guessing that the installation is trying to remove the existing volume group from the drive(s), and it fails for some reason. I used a disk utility to write zeros to the drives so that Fedora will only try to create the LVM, but that didn't work either. I'm going to try it again in text mode with the installation DVD and see if its an identical error. I wouldn't think that would be the case because there shouldn't be a LVM to remove in that instance. In this case, I'm using the KDE Live CD. I've tried using the DVD installation in the past with similar results (freezes) but I don't get the chance to save the anacdump to a floppy, so I can't tell you if its the exact same error. Another thing I'm going to try to is reinstall the ubuntu distribution I had installed. That seemed to work originally, but I really wanted to use fedora 7. Maybe if ubuntu can be installed correctly, I can install fedora over the top and it won't have a problem removing the volume. thanks for your time.
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Have you encountered the same problem when upgrading to Fedora 9?
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