On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 22:35, Douglas McGarrett
wrote:
>
> Linux world for quite a while, and this is the first time I ran into
> this situation.
>
>
Yes. Other distros let you choose which partition gets reformatted. My
installs of Fedora
have been on systems with Windows installed, where I
On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 21:34 +0100, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
> On 9/1/2021 11:39 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > If you create a partition and format it (whatever filesystem you format
> > it with), the Linux installer sees that space as used and unavailable
> > (whether, or not, there is any data in t
On 9/1/2021 11:39 PM, Tim via users wrote:
If you create a partition and format it (whatever filesystem you format
it with), the Linux installer sees that space as used and unavailable
(whether, or not, there is any data in that partition), and will want
to use something else to install to.
Ne
On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 15:04 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
> I may not have indicated that I already have two systems on the new-
> type disk. I want to be sure to keep them. The "new" old-type disk
> is known to the existing Linux as /dev/sda. So I just went to
> gparted again and erased whatev
On 9/1/21 4:58 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 01:23 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
I have added /dev/sda, a new Samsung 465 GiB ssd (ordinary type) to
the system. I formatted it to ext4 using GParted, and it's empty
except for 8.38 GiB at the beginning that GParted must have
On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 01:23 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
> I have added /dev/sda, a new Samsung 465 GiB ssd (ordinary type) to
> the system. I formatted it to ext4 using GParted, and it's empty
> except for 8.38 GiB at the beginning that GParted must have added.
> When I try to add theFedora sy
On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 01:23 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
> Hello. I'm a potential new user, but I'm having trouble with the
> install.
> I have Windows and Leap on one of the new on-board drives, and I
> have added /dev/sda, a new Samsung 465 GiB ssd (ordinary type) to
> the system. I formatted
Hello. I'm a potential new user, but I'm having trouble with the install.
I have Windows and Leap on one of the new on-board drives, and I
have added /dev/sda, a new Samsung 465 GiB ssd (ordinary type) to
the system. I formatted it to ext4 using GParted, and it's empty except
for 8.38 GiB at the
