On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 17:12 +0100, Ian McInerney wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:48 PM Felipe Borges <febor...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:21 PM Ian McInerney < > > ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> I'm trying to install Fedora 32 to a MS Surface GO which has > > some sort of non-standard UEFI install. It refuses to boot anything > > but Windows from the ESP partition even though I can see it using > > efibootmgr. > > > > >> > > > > >> In troubleshooting this and working around it I'm using the F32 > > live installer, but I keep having to install gparted. The installer > > would be much more useful with it preinstalled. > > > > > > > > We already ship Disks (gnome-disks) in the live image. Doesn't it > > > > suffice for the type of task you need to perform? > > > > There are a couple of advantages to gparted (that I haven't found > analogous operations for in gnome-disks): > * gnome-disks doesn't give you as easy access to the range of volume > types that gparted does (I don't see anyway to get FAT16, or the > older EXT2/3 filesystems directly on the format partition dialog, > instead you have to go through and make a partition, wait for that > change to apply, then change the format afterwards). gparted lets you > choose the format right away. > > * gparted allows you to queue operations before performing them - so > you can stage all your disk changes to ensure you can get the layout > you intend and perform them all at once (so you don't accidentally > change the disk while designing a partition layout) > > * gparted gives the fine-grained control of partition information > (such as flags) > > * gparted allows copy/paste of partition information, so you can > quickly do some repetitive partitioning tasks. > > -Ian
I was sure that we already had this discussion [1] [2] [3] , I also use gparted for installations and seems to me that is a tool that should be in a live CD . [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/X4VJIXLY3HIZ7KIP4LI4FKEOHAEXCA75/#KB2DWZRP6NS3JGTLJPIOOUOYYWTG4SJR [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/43P6S34QGDMGZDTZ6O25PXIAY4RGRWFO/#C7NF5BLC74GRQDCTJZH3YJB4OAOH4GJP [3] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/UEVXSR2IWPSIKP7WCFL536BTLCK23GUN/#UEVXSR2IWPSIKP7WCFL536BTLCK23GUN -- Sérgio M. B.
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