/boot or UEFI system partition ? The latter has to a specific FAT-32 so would need to be separate.
On February 16, 2016 5:53:46 PM EST, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: >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 -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
