Re: Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords

2015-01-29 Thread David Lehman
On 01/29/2015 06:29 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 08:53:42 AM Brian C. Lane wrote: This Friday's build of Anaconda will no longer allow you to use weak passwords and click done twice. In order to promote more secureish default systems I have increased the password

Re: Fwd: Re: Installing btrfs file system on Fedora 21 Workstation

2014-09-25 Thread David Lehman
On 09/24/2014 08:41 AM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Installing btrfs file system on Fedora 21 Workstation Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:33:11 +0800 From: Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users

Re: Anaconda - no mount point suggestion

2013-11-06 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 23:33 +0100, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Is it intentional that there is no mount point suggestion in manual partitioning in Anaconda? I can only see plain text filed where I should enter desired partition mount point manually. It's not a problem but I'm worried that I

Re: Anaconda grub install options?

2013-06-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 09:06 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Anyone know if there are plans to provide an option to anaconda so I can have it install all the needed files in /boot, but don't screw with the MBR? There is no option to install the bootloader to /boot, but there is an option to not

Re: Anaconda issues with TC4

2013-04-05 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 14:31 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: In short, I've not let this version of Anaconda perform an actual installation. The list of how it wanted to modify my partitions appeared too dangerous to me to let it continue. Install scenario: Fedora-19-Alpha-TC4-x86_64-DVD.iso

Re: I can't create specific partition layout during F18 installation

2013-01-08 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 11:35 +0100, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: So, I think now it is time to ask for help. I've been unable to reproduce specific partition layout for 3 day in new F18 that I have created in F17 without any problems. I'm asking if it is still possible to do such partitioning.

Re: what is suppose to work?

2012-12-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 07:33 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: On 12/11/2012 07:10 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: On 12/10/2012 06:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 16:22 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: 3. Handle predefined pools and subvolumes. This is working in current

Re: what is suppose to work?

2012-12-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 15:40 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: On 12/11/2012 01:56 PM, David Lehman wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 07:33 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: On 12/11/2012 07:10 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: On 12/10/2012 06:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 16:22 -0700

Re: manual disk configuration problems

2012-12-10 Thread David Lehman
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 09:13 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 10:17 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: snip and there is no running total of space left on individual drives as you create partitions This part is correct, yeah. Incorrect. Click on the blue disk space text on

Re: what is suppose to work?

2012-12-10 Thread David Lehman
On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 11:48 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: 3. Using my newly created F18-beta-livecd, I attempted to install into a predefined LV .. this worked BUT /boot/grub2/grub.cfg did not exist and grub2 was not installed into /dev/vda ... manually fixed it from rescue. This appears

Re: Anyone able to install to an encrypted LV?

2012-12-10 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 09:47 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 12/10/2012 06:20 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Yes. I was able to reuse lvm volumes on LUKS encrypted partition on bare hardware. That's different. I'm talking about the LV itself (not the PV) being LUKS-encrypted. You can

Re: what is suppose to work?

2012-12-10 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 16:55 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: On 12/10/2012 02:33 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: As I see it, the problem with btrfs is that you cannot really reuse a btrfs subvolume in every circumstance. In some cases such as /home, it should be and better be) possible ... have

Re: Prevent F18 anaconda from overwriting bootloader

2012-12-07 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:38 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: As of smoke 4 it looks like I am finally able to install Fedora 18 onto a new LV within an existing VG (a VG built from 2 separate software RAID devices no less)! I did this in a test VM, and I'm darn glad that I did, because it looks

Re: F18 beta experience under VM

2012-12-03 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 01:10 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: expecting that) and I found them under the F18 beta partitioning without a mount point. When I added a mount point the partition was duplicated so for example I had a 500MB ext4 partition and gave it a /boot mount point, which

Re: F18-Beta installer - Aaaargh!

2012-11-30 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 19:39 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:30:53 -0600, David Lehman wrote: It defaults to automatic partitioning, complaining about not enough free space. I've searched for a way to tell it that I want to reuse an existing logical partition. One

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-12 Thread David Lehman
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 11:06 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 11/11/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Nov 10, 2012, at 8:09 PM, John Reiser jrei...@bitwagon.com wrote: 36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an inside joke, ergo you know if we give

Re: Partitioning criteria revision proposal

2012-10-25 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 17:55 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 22:31 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. So it became clear over the course of the last few blocker reviews that the new partitioning criteria need a bit of refinement. Here is my proposal for altering

Re: Partitioning criteria revision proposal

2012-10-25 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 16:47 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 18:22 -0500, David Lehman wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 17:55 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 22:31 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, folks. So it became clear over the course of the last

Re: installation of f18/alpha to a disk with existing partitions

2012-09-20 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 16:28 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi testers, I tried to install f18 alpha (inside VirtualBox) using a prepartitioned disk (12 GB). During partitioning, I selected the review/customize toggle button. The upcoming dialog presents two possibilities: New Fedora

Re: installation of f18/alpha to a disk with existing partitions

2012-09-20 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 15:59 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: On 20/09/12 15:28, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi testers, I tried to install f18 alpha (inside VirtualBox) using a prepartitioned disk (12 GB). During partitioning, I selected the review/customize toggle button. Where is the

Re: New Anaconda - BACK, BACK, BACK...

2012-09-13 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 15:00 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Hey! I've been playing with new Anaconda since Alpha RC2 and I have some doubts about whole concept of this sub pages with configuration options and jumping around them. You can indulge your doubts or you can adapt. It's up to

Re: New Anaconda - BACK, BACK, BACK...

2012-09-13 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 23:08 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 13.09.2012 22:02, David Lehman wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 15:00 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Hey! I've been playing with new Anaconda since Alpha RC2 and I have some doubts about whole concept of this sub pages

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies are a part of developmental installs. What was most

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Then there is a question of prominently showing substandard software to the public. We all know about first impressions in social settings. In operating systems it is the installer that makes the first impressions. You

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 07:49 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: Agreed. And I fear the universe, in this case, may be winning by producing bigger idiot developers. Indeed -- bigger idiot developers who seek to simplify their software by eliminating limited-value features that bring needless

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 07:31 +0200, Petr Schindler wrote: On So, 2012-07-07 at 09:15 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/06/2012 07:10 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: I attempted installation using Fedora-20120703-x86_64-916dfe7-netinst.iso and found that it only allows choosing one

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 08:14 -0600, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: On 07/07/12 03:15 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/06/2012 07:10 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: I attempted installation using Fedora-20120703-x86_64-916dfe7-netinst.iso and found that it only allows choosing one desktop. I

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:21 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: And I would further posit that, since the position has been taken that you can override all of this post-install, the potential complexity is only reduced in the installation process. The installed system remains just as complex

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 23:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/2012 11:43 PM, David Lehman wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 07:49 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: Agreed. And I fear the universe, in this case, may be winning by producing bigger idiot developers. Indeed -- bigger idiot

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 11:23 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 11:52 -0500, David Lehman wrote: Exactly what is so bad with that practice (of installing both desktops) as to frown upon it? I am a KDE user and yet I still install Gnome on my machine. Exactly

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 12:12 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 12:49 -0500, David Lehman wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 11:23 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 11:52 -0500, David Lehman wrote: Exactly what is so bad with that practice

Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

2012-07-09 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 15:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 14:50 -0500, David Lehman wrote: Please show researched statistics to support your claim and implication that this is a minority group. I question and doubt you actually have statistics on any

Re: New Anaconda UI initial testing

2012-07-06 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 15:22 -0400, Timothy Davis wrote: Same here, crashed at disk selection/partitioning in qemu vm storage.log at fpaste.org/1ywE/ You're going to need to initialize your disks before running the install. This will most likely be handled in the very next image, but

Re: [resolved]Re: F17 btrfs installation

2012-04-12 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 11:08 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: On 04/12/2012 06:41 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 11:08 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: I'm going give it a try w/ btrfs partitioning. Meanwhile, I wasn't keeping up. Can someone confirm, does /boot still need

Re: F17 btrfs installation

2012-04-11 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 11:08 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: I'm going give it a try w/ btrfs partitioning. Meanwhile, I wasn't keeping up. Can someone confirm, does /boot still need to be ext3/ext4 for btrfs to work? Ok, I gave it a try w/ the below command line, and an error you

Re: F17 btrfs installation

2012-04-10 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 21:12 +0200, gaelic wrote: Hello. I know that anaconda is having a bug in terms of installing to btrfs Partitions and btrfs is generally disabled for now. Anybody knows if a installation of F17 to btrfs is possible if it already exists? Almost anything will be possible

Re: 17 Alpha cannot mount partition during install.

2012-02-29 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 12:47 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi, Just trying out the new i386 Alpha. I have now tried several different HDs, doing a full install (repartitioning the entire HD) and once all the partitions have been formatted, the install process crashes every time whilst trying

Re: Strange behaviour in Disk Druid

2011-12-08 Thread David Lehman
this will be addressed for FC17 for my next go around! This is fixed on rawhide/f17, but it was too late in the f16 cycle to include the fix there: commit 2ce467fe4802672d41926a4b4753b6e501acf038 Author: David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com Date: Fri Nov 4 13:28:15 2011 -0500 Cap new /boot/efi partitions

Re: Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

2011-11-18 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 09:59 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 11/16/2011 08:50 AM, David Lehman wrote: Yaboot and grub1 can only do RAID1 as far as software RAID goes. grub2 can do 0, 1, or 5. Dave Will raid 10 be supported? I'm not saying that it will be supported in Fedora

Re: Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

2011-11-16 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:20 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Hey, everyone. So, right now, the Beta criteria include: The installer must be able to create and install to software, hardware or BIOS RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5 partitions for anything except /boot We specifically excepted /boot at

Re: Verne Anaconda Antisocial Behavior

2011-11-11 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 05:25 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: I prepped an old 20 GB IDE drive with a 500 MB FreeDOS partition. Anaconds 25 refused to use this disk unless it wiped out existing partition table (and FreeDOS with it). Details, please. Refused to use it in exactly what

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-19 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 21:57 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com said: I just tried it and it worked fine. If you put your ks.cfg and the /tmp/storage.log from your install somewhere I can take a look and tell you what went wrong. Okay, I'm probably

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-19 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:00 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com said: You found a bug. We don't honor fsprofile when --useexisting is passed to the logvol command. If you file a bug it can be fixed pretty easily. Or, if you just let anaconda create

Re: / must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

2011-10-18 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:41 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com said: I will be fixing kickstart when I get the chance to make this requirement consistent. If your root filesystem is ext[234], see 'man mke2fs.conf' and create yourself a profile

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 18:11 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:37:44 +0200, I wrote: Just a brief look, trying to learn a little bit prior to the decision whether I want to keep GRUB2: The package doesn't contain /boot/grub/ but /boot/grub2/ - sigh. We've had years

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 22:09 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:25:19 + (UTC), J (JB) wrote: I think you criticize him unjustly. Perhaps. I am getting tired of the protests to grub2 and every other thing that changes. grub2-mkconfig is just a brute-force shell script

Re: grub -- grub2 Branched

2011-09-30 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 09:50 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: I have Branched boxes with have stayed as Branched since F14 with grub Now I try install grub2 - conflict. How do I install without losing the 8 kernel entries in grub\menu.lst Worried that yum uninstall grub will remove the entries.

Re: Pre-BetaTC2 Installer Testing

2011-09-08 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 17:28 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 09/08/2011 01:57 PM, Tim Flink wrote: Who's ready for some pre-betaTC2 installer testing fun? I built a custom boot.iso that could use some testing and karma before we kick off the F16 Beta TC2 (hopefully later today). If you

Re: Working multiboot configuration

2011-09-01 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 23:35 -0400, Marty Felkler wrote: My first post as a new thread to this list. Using'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' which as I said on the FedoraForums is the correct way to create a boot grub.cfg I read your post on the forums. The simplest solution to

Re: F16 Grub2 not including windows

2011-08-30 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 07:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/26/2011 10:01 PM, David Lehman wrote: We added code to automatically generate entries using os-prober, but apparently os-prober is not available if you install from DVD without enabling network repos. It's probably also

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-26 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:18 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:20:54 -0700, AW (Adam) wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:59 -0500, David Lehman wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: Between TC1 and release of F16 Alpha, something must have

Re: GRUB FAilure

2011-08-26 Thread David Lehman
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:22 -0400, Marty Felkler wrote: I could not isntall GRUB to the boot partition on my second drive /dev/sdb2. The only way was to install to MBR on /dev/sda. This was This will no longer be an issue as of the first beta test compose. To get grub2 installed on sdb2 you

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-25 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: Between TC1 and release of F16 Alpha, something must have changed to the worse with regard to installing GRUB to a partition's primary sector. Partitioning hasn't changed. TC1 managed to install GRUB to /dev/sda3. Anaconda now reports

Re: grub vs grub2 question

2011-08-11 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 21:29 +0200, Jurgen Kramer wrote: If I see a grub.conf file on my EFI partition under /EFI/redhat/, does it mean anaconda installed grub instead of grub2? (the other files there are device.map and grub.efi, the syntax of grub.conf looks like normal grub 1 syntax instead

Re: Errors in GNOME installer for 2011-03-15 builds

2011-03-16 Thread David Lehman
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 15:18 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Tim Flink tfl...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/16/2011 11:36 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: No traceback or messages that I can see, just a notification that i can't put a partition on root. Just