On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 15:35 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Well 'dd' worked without a problem to clear the PNY 64GB drive I > that was at hand and I put Fedora 33 beta on it: It usually does. There are some odd cases where it won't, but I'd only bother with going into that if you're trying to work out why it didn't work. > My only concern is getting the standard partition scheme, I may need > media writer for that. Media Writer isn't involved in partitioning your hard drive. It creates an OS install disc. The routines on that installer have steps for partitioning your drives. Now, you mention "standard partitioning scheme." Some may take that as will the installer make a default installation that works without me having to think about it? But I'm guessing you mean that you want ordinary partitions, rather than LVM. If you boot an install disc as a live OS (it running from that install as a usable OS), it has an install to hard drive icon on the desktop that will simply dump itself to a hard drive, with little choice about how it's down. If you boot an install disc that goes straight into an install system process, you'll have an opportunity to customise the partitions it'll create on your hard drive. Last time I did that, I seem to recall that I removed the partitions it intended to create, clicked an option that was about LVM or traditional partitioning, and then let it automatically create the actual partitions (it picks suitable sizes, and the right types of partitions for the boot and UEFI partitions, which you can check before it actually goes and does it). Since you seem to have another computer to experiment on, I'd do a bit of trial and error on it, to see how much of the partitioning routine you can work out. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
