Fedora 11 installation fails: cannot partition disk

info1686 · 07-10-2009, 09:59 AM

Hello All,
Fedora 11 installation is failing on my laptop.
Anaconda installer exits with the error: can't commit changes to disk.
Cant commit after 5 attempts

I have an Acer laptop. I have set AHCI mode. Fedora 10 installed and worked fine.

It also corrupted my existing /boot partition and is giving me
grub> prompt

Luckily I know how to boot my Windows from here.

Please help

Thanks

John VV · 07-10-2009, 03:28 PM

there is a bug in the fedora 11 cd and dvd
use gparted to unformat the drive first then install fedora 11 .

search the forums .it is very well documented.
and look through fedoraforum
http://www.fedoraforum.org/

syg00 · 07-10-2009, 06:28 PM

Seems a bit drastic for multi-boot system - mine has 6, one of which is F10, about to become F11.
I couldn't get to the link @John_VV posted, but this is mentioned under common bugs on the fedoraproject.org homepage. There is an update for Anaconda offered there that can be used during the install.

John VV · 07-10-2009, 07:24 PM

then just unpartition the space for fedora 11

that is what i did for 11 , with CentOS also installed

info1686 · 07-11-2009, 01:54 AM

I deleted the linux partitions using my Ubuntu Live CD and then used
the free space for installing Fedora 11 and it worked