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[Adam Huffman <bloch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:08:44AM -0700, Candice Gansen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Has anyone had issues installing Fedora 15 on their Vaio?  I tried
> running the Fedora 15 beta install DVD on my VPCZ1390X, but it
> didn't recognize any of my partitions.  I have several partitions on
> my drive already (NTFS for Windows, ext4 for Ubuntu, swap), but I
> only want to replace the ext4 Ubuntu install.  The Fedora installer,
> however, only shows the entire 128G drive as format "Unknown."  I
> assume it's picking up the RAID because it shows only one 128G drive
> instead of the two 64G drives.
> 
> I'm not sure what kind of debug info to post, but any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 

Candice,

You can switch to other virtual terminals while running the installer
i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F2, F3 etc. which have various log files, including
storage detection.

One question though - did you use "Basic" or "Specialised" storage?  I
think you will need the latter.

Cheers,
Adam