Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-20 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 19 March 2014 19:29, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > >> I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 19, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> > Would it be considered "bad" to just blow the drive away and use it with an > ext4 file format? Or is that just not possible? just wondering if I should > happen to run across one of these kinds of laptops… Not bad and it is possi

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 19, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > First thing I did after getting the PC was to format the disk. With what? How? > > Will do. It may be left over from previous testing in which case it is linux > drives. I thought though that anaconda had removed them. You have to be reall

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread David
On 3/19/2014 7:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: > > There are no windows drives on the disk. First thing I did after getting > the PC was to format the disk. Format or fdisk the drive? Format does just that. Cleans sthe partition(s) Fdisk removes the partition(s

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 03/19/2014 07:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough spac

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's al

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > > Typically, these systems come with a restore partition for Windows > (whatever the version). What I want to know is how many Windows > 'drives' are listed when you boot it into Windows. blkid will show label and file system, mounting them and

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and > large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on > disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 > with a 5

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 > 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 > 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 > 205826048222111743

Re: UEFI oddity.

2014-03-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it > seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for > another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I > intent to