[lug] FC12 installer bug?

[stimits at comcast.net]

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> I've been trying to install to a quad opteron machine, with 4 hard 
> drives (400 GB each, SATA2). I've been experimenting with raid 
> options, and cannot get past what is apparently a show-stopper bug. 
> From what little I found, this was supposed to be FC12 beta bug...has 
> anyone here run into this on the non-beta? 527952 MODIFIED anaconda 
> AttributeError: ' NoneType ' object has no attribute 'disk' 

Do you have the fixed version of anaconda? 
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I'm using the anaconda which is stock to FC12 i386, using the GUI mode. 

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> Perhaps there is a workaround, maybe pre-partitioning in a rescue 
> mode? 

It seems likely that that would work based on what the bug says. 
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I did the partitioning and RAID setup on command line via rescue (which is a lot faster than that silly GUI...I should just have pre-partitioned to save time, even if there were no anaconda bug). This did the trick. 
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> Related question on state-of-the-art in FC12: I have not installed a 
> system in quite a while, and although it's obvious that /boot can't 
> use LVM, can this use RAID1? Journaling filesystems like ext3 
> (without special kernel builds)? 

/boot can use LVM and as of grub2 it can use grub as well (I'm still 
using LILO mostly until I get around to changing). 
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I noticed that if I used "defaults", it was trying to use ext4 on /boot. So I gave it a shot, and it works great, complete with RAID 1. 
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Don't know about ext4 but I'm sure grub2 will support it soon enough. 
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Whatever the version is on FC12, apparently ext4 works as well (which is also derived from the ext2 family). 


Dan Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net 
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