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 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?
If sda2 is your extended partition, then ALL logical partitions (5 and up) must be within sda2. You can have sda1, 3 and 4 be normal primary partitions wherever you want on the disk (except inside sda2 of course). On the other hand it sounds wrong that it would insist on having /boot separate. I can't find anything that says fedora 23 requires such a thing, except of you use encrypted / or LVM for / -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
