On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:00:47PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote: > 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.
Oh right, since 2TB is the limit for dos partitions. > 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. So having a gpt disk in the system confuses the fedora installer? How convinient. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
