
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 An Ubuntu live CD should most certainly connect you to the network. Even most WiFi cards that require a proprietary driver such as Broadcom work, but it's possible your hardware isn't supported without additional drivers. The Ubuntu installer is easier to use than it used to be, but less flexible as a result, especially in how the hard drive will be preserved or formatted. I would proceed by performing an installation entirely on your root partition /dev/sda1. If the installer insists, create a 256 MByte partition /dev/sda3 and put /boot on that. Make sure the installer doesn't touch /dev/sda2 or any other extended partition. Once the install is complete you can edit /etc/fstab to mount /dev/sda5 as home (or whatever partition your /home is now) and you should retain all your files. - --Bob. Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA On 2016-02-15 07:06 PM, 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?
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