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 whatever was on sda, and gparted made me > have a partition, so I made the whole drive a partition and formatted > it as fat32, which is probably the way it came from the factory. Is > this OK? I'll wait for an answer before proceeding. You're back at square one, about to do the same thing. 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. New hard drives do not come formatted. If you're sharing the drive with other installations, then do not erase the whole drive - you'll remove those other installation. Remove the spare partition you made, leave that part of the drive empty. Do not create a new partition, do not do any formatting. Leave the space unused. If you're not sharing the drive with anything else, do that to the entire drive. Gparted does not make you create partitions. Sure it might prompt you to make one as the next step, but you don't have to. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 11:57:15 UTC 2021 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
