On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:06:08PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote: > Updating my desktop to Fedora_23 continues to be a challenge. > > I figured out how to connect to the network. Now, it insists on a > /boot partition separate from /home. This appears to be a new > feature. I am trying to upgrade, rather than re-install > everything. I don't recall how I managed to do this, but my root > partition is /dev/sda1. My other partitions are contained in the > extended partition /dev/sda2. > > Does anybody know how I can use the Fedora installer to split > /dev/sda1 into two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6?. I tried > deleting /, and creating the two new partitions, and it did not > work. Alternately, is there a way to use my root partition for > booting? > > I have looked at my partition table using fdisk. It looks like I > can delete /dev/sda1 and create the two new partitions sda1 and > sda6. Definitely, this destroys my current setup, and my new > install had damn well better work. Partitions sda1 and sda6 will > be next to each other, followed by sda2. Has anybody done this > safely?
I don't think you can mix primary and logical partitions that way. It may be easier to create a new logical partition as /boot, though. > > I have a Ubuntu DVD here. When I "Try Ubuntu", I was able to make > it claim that my network was connected, but I was unable to ping > the machine, or connect the browser to http://www.google.com. Is > this how Ubuntu behaves in demo mode? The Ubuntu installer seems > to over-write boot. If I play with it, I am forced to re-install > something. > > Fedora_20 was a dead cinch to install. How did everything get so > complicated? > > -- Howard Gibson [email protected] [email protected] > [email protected] http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing > List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
