On Thursday 31 December 2009, Garrick Sitongia wrote: > I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual boot > system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the > present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I > assumed this meant the operating system partition. There were 2 other > unrelated ext3 partitions for photo archives and e-mail backup. After > booting into Fedora I discovered that the Fedora installer wiped every > linux partition without confirmation or consent. I have installed other > versions of Linux and I have always been given a choice. Your installer > should indicate that ALL linux type file systems will be wiped, in > addition to the operating system file system. > that's why you should choose the "customize" option when installing. I installed F12 on a new hard drive and re-used my /home partition on another drive. While F12 didn't work (due to a problem with the way the BIOS has the drives -- need to change the boot order and "refresh" the install -- my problem, not Fedora's) my F11 system is still here. As I said, you need to choose to use a custom partition scheme, otherwise, Fedora will wipe every linux partition as happened to you. Granted, it's not obvious, but if you've been playing with linux for more than a couple distributions, I'd think you'd already have some notion of this by now. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
