On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:30:55 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[email protected]> wrote:
> | From: Howard Gibson <[email protected]> > > | Updating my desktop to Fedora_23 continues to be a challenge. > > There are two odd challenges that I remember with Fedora 23. They can > be disconcerting but need not be fatal. > > One has been true of Fedora installation for a while. After you > select a disk, it analyzes it asynchronously so for a while you get a > diagnostic message that isn't true (I forget the details). And it > doesn't tell you that it is still working on the problem. Asynchrony, > with consequences, but no indication, is a Bad Thing. > > The second is > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269298> > I hit it when installing with a USB ethernet connected. > I can dodge it by installing without the USB ethernet dongle. > See comment 17. > It is a simple fix but Fedora doesn't re-issue installation disks, even > when they have errors. > > > | The other is that it gets confused by > | I figured out how to connect to the network. > > Other than what? > > | 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. > > I've not been forced to create a /boot. But on an EFI system, you do > need /boot/efi filesystem. That's a law-of-UEFI, not something > originating from Fedora. I'm typing this on an F23 system with /boot > as a directory within / and /boot/efi as a (FAT) filesystem. Success! I read up on Fedora and /boot partitions. There was a lot of stuff on MBR versus GPT partitions. From the Fedora DVD installation, I logged in as root and I tried "fdisk -l". This revealed that my 2TB drive with my OS and working partitions, is "Disklabel type: dos". My 500GB Archive drive is "Disklabel type: dos". My new 4TB backup drive is "Disklabel type: gpt". I unplugged my 4TB drive, and the install went fine. Install done, I rebooted, I got the network working and I went "dnf -y update". With the update done, my network stopped working. The network tool claimed it was connecting. From dmesg, I could see that it could see my router's MAC address. Eventually, I set my IPv4 method to "Automatic". "Link-local" was what worked when I did the install. I will post all of this to my website in a couple of days. -- Howard Gibson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
