/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 <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> 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 /
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