Trying to install Fedora 23

Hi everybody

I have been trying to install fedora 23 for a couple of days and didn't achieve anything, didn't understand much either.

and i had a lot of problems like these 

    

Any particular reason for going with Fedora? There are definitely other ones that are more for a new user to Linux.

Edited by DeimosChaos, 23 March 2016 - 03:47 PM.

Actually i'm watching an online course in which the tutor uses fedora so i didn't want to be confused in the middle

i'm not sure if i need it or not but i'm confused so i wanted to try it

any advice please?

thanks for your reply )

Ah okay, no problem, makes perfect sense. I currently can't see your posted pics (at work), so I'll take a look when I get home.

Also, while you wait. Are you installing it on a spare computer, on your main computer and dual booting? How are you going about doing this?

Edited by DeimosChaos, 23 March 2016 - 04:20 PM.

I just tried booting up virtualbox so I could show you... but its not liking fedora 23 at the moment... so. It looks like your main issue is not having a valid root partition (the " / "). When you choose what partition you want to use, make sure you set that partition to " / ". That should then take care of everything else underneath it. The root level is the highest level.

See if these instructions help you out at all.

Fedoras installer has always rather been funny.

If taking linux courses and fedora is your basis try to be patient.

I friggin hate anaconda (the installer for fedora)

Fedoras installer has always rather been funny.

If taking linux courses and fedora is your basis try to be patient.

I friggin hate anaconda (the installer for fedora)

Yeah I hate it too

I just tried booting up virtualbox so I could show you... but its not liking fedora 23 at the moment... so. It looks like your main issue is not having a valid root partition (the " / "). When you choose what partition you want to use, make sure you set that partition to " / ". That should then take care of everything else underneath it. The root level is the highest level.

 

See if these instructions help you out at all.

Thanks for your reply

I have tried this and tried others before but nothing work unfortunately.

i just got alot of " local variable 'e' referenced before assignment " and got this too " unable to allocate requested partition scheme " .

but nothing from the images above appeared

I have Fedora 23 installed on my computer right now. Just scroll to the bottom of the page that you are posting pictures of and add a mount point by clicking on the plus sign. There is a drop down menu on the left hand side of that page that has the destination for your installation. Click on the destination that you want then scroll to the bottom of the square on the left hand side of the screen and press the "PLUS" sign and then you will get new options.

Thus why i hate anaconda... terrible gui installer for linux

Thus why i hate anaconda... terrible gui installer for linux

Yes, right now I am struggling to install a copy of CentOS, I've had no luck yet. I think it uses the same kind of installation GUI.

Yup CentOS and Fedora use the same install GUI (or whatever you want to call it). Both based off RedHat.

Okay, got Fedora up and running on Vmware (doesn't like Virtualbox for some reason). 

I'll post the steps, hopefully this helps if you have not gotten it already.

Step 1.

Click on "INSTALLATION DESTINATION"

Step 2.

Make sure the Drive/partition you want to use is selected. You select it under the "Local Standard Disks" section. Then make sure you click on the radial button "I will configure partitioning".

Step 3.

You should now be in the "Manual Partitioning" section. Click on the " + " down on the bottom left to add a new mount point.

Step 4.

Put " / " for the "Mount Point:" and leave desired Capacity blank if you intend on using the full partition.

Step 5.

You should be able to leave everything here it's default value. You can put a "Label" if you want to, sometimes it makes it easier to identify that partition/drive. Up to you.

Step 6.

Look over the summary and make sure everything is okay. Once done, hit "Accept Changes". You will then have to hit "Done" (upper left) twice to complete changes.

You should then be able to continue on with the installation. Hopefully this helps you out.

I did exactly as you did but it gives me " error checking storage configuration " instead of " automatic partitioning selected " (sorry couldn't get a screenshot)

How do you guys take screenshots of installation pages?

I did exactly as you did but it gives me " error checking storage configuration " instead of " automatic partitioning selected " (sorry couldn't get a screenshot)

 

 

Unless you are trying to install Fedora on a brand new system, you do not want to select "automatic partitioning" you really NEED to select manual partitioning.