On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 15:18 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I have been trying to install Fedora 31XFCE Spin. I've spent
more
time at it than I care to admitbut can"t get the Anaconda installer
to see a clear one terabyte drive. I re-partitioned it with Gparted
and gave it an ext4 file system. The problem seems to be that I don't
want LVM, choosing Standard Partition instead. It seems to want to
reformat and install ext4 again? That's ok but it never happens ...
It just keeps showing 0B used and 0B of free space?
Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong?
I'm unfamiliar with the XFCE spin, but you may be striking this
problem: The installer wants to make use of unused space, and your
(gparted) created partition isn't considered to be free space.
You could go back to gparted, and remove your partitions, making it a
blank drive.
You can explore your XFCE installer options, to remove all partitions
on a drive, and start from square one. With other spins, you can do
this relatively painlessly. If you don't go with automatic settings,
you just have to think carefully about what size partitions you want to
use, and the kind of partitions.
The other way to use a pre-formatted drive, is to go pick your pre-made
partitions as the *mount* points for the install to use.
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