Hello all, I hope that’s the right section to report installation gotchas and ask questions about it !
I’m using two disks only for now : 40GiB for boot+root
and a 4GiB for swap
.
Partitioning report
Automatic partitioning didn’t work, but that may be expected with this setup (I don’t have any experience with Fedora installs).
When I go to manual partitioning, after I successfully create boot
then root
on the 1st disk (sda), I cannot add a swap
partition on the 2nd disk (sdb), I’m told “no space left”. Of course I previously de-selected sdb on boot
and root
in “Device(s)->Modify”.
The solution is to create the swap
partition first and de-selecting sda from it.
There should be a “device selection” when selecting mountpoints in anaconda, but I guess it’s not Qubes related but rather a Fedora problem.
I encountered another problem, after partitioning correctly. I’ve set a really short passphrase for now (1234), plannign to change it later, and even if the installer showed me “the key is too short”, it didn’t prevented me to continue, so I thought that would be handled like a short root password, but no !
The GUI installation stalled at “Created luks on /dev/sda2”, with an error message (that I didn’t copy, but from memory it was “Incorrect passphrase”). In the logs, I see “pyanaconda.[…].errors.installation.StorageInstallationError: Failed to activate device: Incorrect passphrase”.
I reported the error on the RedHat bug tracker.
Add-Ons report
I know I can install the templates later after install, but I just wanted to report that I was only presented with “Qubes UI (Audio/Gui)” in the Add-Ons, not any template like on the install guide. I’m using “Qubes-R4.1.0-x86_64.iso” (5.5GiB)