On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 19:12 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a > distro already present on the target machine. I've studied it & apart > from destroying the existing partition with GParted there seems to be no > other way (this happens on 18 & 19). > > Most painful it is. > > If anybody can show me a workaround I'd be most grateful. Assuming I read you right, if the responses so far haven't been specific enough, you want to go the disk selection screen, select the target disks, click Done, then on Installation Options, set any options you want to set, then click Reclaim Space. On the screen that pops up you can choose to delete (or shrink) any combination of existing storage volumes on the chosen disk(s) to free up space for the Fedora install. Once you're happy, and assuming your chosen actions would create enough free space for a Fedora install, hit 'Done', and you will be returned to the hub. The 'partitioning plan' at this point will be that the delete/shrink operations you specified will be carried out and the installer will then automatically partition all available free space for Fedora, using the volume type you chose from the drop-down on the Installation Options screen. This will only actually *occur* when you hit the Begin Installation button on the hub: up until that point you can still go back through the Installation Destination spoke and change your choices. All the time you're in the partitioning workflow, nothing you specify is actually *happening*, it's all just a 'plan'. (this distinction is freaking hard to explain concisely in the kinds of labels and explanatory text you can write into the installer UI, though.) You can also wipe existing partitions from custom partitioning and do all sorts of other things too, but this is the easy, 'express' route. Sometimes I think I should just write a blog post which explains precisely how anaconda's storage workflow actually works, because it's much easier to see why it's put together the way it is once you understand precisely how it works, if you see what I mean :P -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
