Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On 9/16/2025 6:50 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM home user via users wrote: On 9/13/2025 9:59 AM, home user via users wrote: > good morning, > > (background) > [...] By default (!= mandatory!), Fedora keeps 5 old kernels when a ker

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On 9/16/2025 4:21 AM, Tim wrote: Go Canes wrote: Does it need to be Windows? home user: It does not *need* to be windows. It just seems to be the easiest way to go. But I realize I could install something else over windows on that box. I might suggest, when your new PC is going well. Inst

Re: "bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.).

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM Tim via users wrote: > Oh, and this bit (above)... It's hard to predict future needs, and I > have my doubts about any modern hardware (including drives) lasting 10 > years. You should expect a drive to fail 10 minutes after the warranty expires. Sorry for the cy

Re: "bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.).

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM home user via users wrote: > The new desktop has: > * 1 TB M.2(?) NVMe(?) drive for the operating system and installed > applications, and > * 4 TB spindle drive for personal stuff. > Assume that I want most things stored uncompressed and unencrypted. > Assume that

Re: "bare metal" installation

On 9/16/25 3:08 PM, home user via users wrote: On 9/15/2025 10:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/15/25 8:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2025 09:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: 3 is the default. "installonly_limit=3" Good thing I asked. Thank-you, Samuel. By default, how does Fedora handle rescue k

Re: "bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.).

On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 16:08 -0600, home user via users wrote: > of course, want to have lots of space available for kernel growth > over the next decade. Oh, and this bit (above)... It's hard to predict future needs, and I have my doubts about any modern hardware (including drives) lasting 10 ye

Re: "bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.).

On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 16:08 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I know a few people have encountered running out of storage space when a > kernel gets patched or upgraded. It happened to me a few times. I > recall seeing somewhere that this can be avoided with wise partitioning, > which is a p

Re: "bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.).

On 16 Sep 2025 at 16:08, home user via users wrote: Date sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:08:50 -0600 Subject:"bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.). To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Send reply to: Communit

"bare metal" installation (was: dual-boot installation instructions.).

I renamed this thread since I've chosen to not make the new desktop dual-boot. On 9/15/2025 10:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/15/25 8:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2025 09:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: 3 is the default. "installonly_limit=3" Good thing I asked. Thank-you, Samuel. By default

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

On 9/16/25 2:33 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM Dave Close > wrote: Samuel Sieb wrote: > For example I have this: > /usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e9e66357e278e0aa06b8ac395f9251 -> > ../../../../usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.

Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM Dave Close wrote: > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > For example I have this: > > /usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e9e66357e278e0aa06b8ac395f9251 -> > > ../../../../usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/heic.so > > It's dangling because I haven't installed the "h

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM home user via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 9/13/2025 9:59 AM, home user via users wrote: > > good morning, > > > > (background) > > [...] > By default (!= mandatory!), Fedora keeps 5 old kernels when a kernel is > patched or updated, right?

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

Go Canes wrote: >> Does it need to be Windows? home user: > It does not *need* to be windows. It just seems to be the easiest way > to go. But I realize I could install something else over windows on > that box. I might suggest, when your new PC is going well. Install another Linux to the ol

Re: dual-boot installation instructions.

On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 19:00 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I'll most likely keep this old windows-10 box for emergency fall-back. > side question: Will windows-10 still work properly after microsoft > "sunsets" it next month (Oct. 14?), or has microsoft rigged things so > that it no longer