Installation fails with PartitionException

vidurinda · 06-29-2009, 11:07 AM

Fedora 11 - Exception occures while attempting to resizing existing partitions under the Create custom layout partitioning option.

I tried to install on my Benq Joybook A53.with 120GB SATA HDD, using my existing windows partition

please help me to solve this.

thanks all

linus72 · 06-29-2009, 11:16 AM

Being that Fed 11 is kinda unstable; I would use a stable distro livecd like ubuntu-8.04
to partition the disk, then install Fed 11 to pre-prepared/formatted partition.

But, what do you mean "by using my existing partition"?

Did you reformat, etc or did you do the auto-install?

John VV · 06-29-2009, 11:19 AM

there is a bug in the install cd and dvd .Some people have found that they can not change partition sizes . I would use the Gparted live cd
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
to resize the partitions first then leave the partition as UNFORMATED
then install fedora 11

vidurinda · 06-30-2009, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72

Being that Fed 11 is kinda unstable; I would use a stable distro livecd like ubuntu-8.04
to partition the disk, then install Fed 11 to pre-prepared/formatted partition.

But, what do you mean "by using my existing partition"?

Did you reformat, etc or did you do the auto-install?

No I used one of logical drives in my windows HDD. I can delete that partition without having any trouble but try to create linux partitions, it gives exception and exit the installer.

Can I use fedora 10 cd to create partition and install fedora 11 on that partitions? can you explain little bit about that?.

Thanks your help.

John VV · 06-30-2009, 01:04 PM

as far as i know the bug is in removing the OLD partitions ,in that the parted program on the f 11 dvd/cd dose not work .
i have been using Gparted to UNFORMAT the existing partitions and use the install dvd /cd to format them to ext3 ( for the boot partition only ) and ext4 for / ,and /home .

this bug only affects some hardware.