| From: Howard Gibson <hgibson@eol.ca> | 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. | 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. Should be as easy as pie. Whether is the best thing to do is unclear to me. Alternatively, I often use a live F23 system, and run gparted to adjust partitioning. I don't remember if I have to install it ("dnf install gparted"). NOTE: if you use gparted to resize an ntfs partition, immediately reboot Windows. It might find some damage and repair it. If you delay booting Windows until after a few more steps, sometimes Windows won't boot. | 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? You might be able to get gparted to shrink /dev/sda1, preserving what's in it. But I don't comprehend what you are trying to do. | 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. Normally Ubutu Live DVD's are very slick and automatic. You could debug the problem: after all, you have a full-featured Linux already working for you. I admit that networking is both intricate and complicated and can be difficult to debug. | Fedora_20 was a dead cinch to install. How did everything get so | complicated? It should be incrementally better.