On 3 Oct 2025 at 15:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 15:00:29 -0700 Subject: Re: "bare metal" installation To: [email protected] From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> On 10/3/25 10:55 AM, home user via users wrote: > > I tried the installation a short while ago. I got lost. As I mentioned > > at the start of the original thread, I have not been able to find > > instructions for a non-default installation from live media. > > > > The bios has been updated. The live media is ready. > > > > What I want: > > * on the 1 TB drive: > > > 3 GB for /boot (I'm guessing that should exclude /boot/efi). > > > whatever (default) for /boot/efi. > > > the rest (almost 997? GB) for all the other syetem directories. > > * on the 4 TB drive: > > > all for /home. > > > > I was unable to figure out what to do in the live media screen where > > disk(s) are set up. I abandoned the install. > > > > How do I do this? > > I don't understand why you want to do that, but click the menu in the > top-right corner to access the manual disk tool. That partitioning > basically wastes your entire SSD. How does that waste entire SSD? My current setup seems similar to that. I generally use my G4L disk project to clone older drive to newer drive now and then, and thus add space. On this one data partition. On this disk did use gparted to shift / over .5G and resize, and then increased the /boot by .5G to 1.5G total. So am I seeing something different? #sfdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 953.87 GiB, 1024209543168 bytes, 2000409264 sectors Disk model: Fanxiang S101Q 1 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 70647742-8953-40B3-8BDE-1C14F7B6D51B Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 1230847 1228800 600M EFI System /dev/sdb2 1230848 4376575 3145728 1.5G Linux filesystem /dev/sdb3 4376576 192071679 187695104 89.5G Linux filesystem /dev/sdb4 192071680 1590808575 1398736896 667G Linux filesystem /dev/sdb5 1590808576 2000408575 409600000 195.3G Linux filesystem # df | grep sdb | sort /dev/sdb1 613160 39124 574036 7% /boot/efi /dev/sdb2 1512328 877892 586600 60% /boot /dev/sdb3 91793264 49474912 40425024 56% / /dev/sdb4 687271584 39632628 633635208 6% /home /dev/sdb5 200476396 6454180 189909832 4% /data Also, have a second disk (nvme) in machine # sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk model: Kingchuxing 1TB Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 411A558D-A3FB-4C96-BF0A-408C739787A7 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G Linux filesystem Then have another machine with same Dell Lattitute 5580, but it doesn't have the nvidia card?? It was a recent clean install, So the /boot is 1G size still # df -h | grep -v tmpfs Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/nvme0n1p3 1.9T 23G 1.8T 2% / efivarfs 384K 377K 2.3K 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /dev/nvme0n1p2 974M 467M 440M 52% /boot /dev/nvme0n1p3 1.9T 23G 1.8T 2% /home /dev/nvme0n1p1 599M 20M 580M 4% /boot/efi # sfdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Disk model: CT2000T500SSD8 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 9A06BD15-90EE-4358-8978-89ED6EB10686 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1230847 1228800 600M EFI System /dev/nvme0n1p2 1230848 3327999 2097152 1G Linux extended boot /dev/nvme0n1p3 3328000 3907028991 3903700992 1.8T Linux filesystem Disk /dev/zram0: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 2097152 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Note sure why nvme drive on the one machine is /dev/sda while on other machine came up as /dev/nvme0n1? Thanks for all your messages to the list. Tons of good info. Have a Great Day. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > 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/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+
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