On 12/6/2013 12:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2013, at 8:41 PM, David <dgbo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> A Live-CD (DVD) will, all that I know of, *always* over write an >> existing install. > > That's definitely not the default behavior with the Fedora installer since > Fedora 18. With Fedora 17 and older, the default option was to replace > existing Linux, and it was plainly marked with other options described on the > same window. > >> That I know of anyway, They are a 'write this to the >> disk' system. It has been a long time but I (me!) do not know of a >> Live-CD that does disk partitioning. > > On Fedora, the same installer is used for live desktop and DVD installs. It > has the same partitioning functionality in either case. > > The older installer for live installs was limited to rootfs being ext4 > because the live file system was imaged to the target partition or LV, and > then resized as a post install operation. That hasn't been the case since > F18's installer, which uses rsync for live installs, and will install to > whatever file system and layout that the installer supports (which is the > same as for DVD and netinstall images). > > >> Now you mentioned Windows. *If* you have Windows install you need to >> 'shrink' the Windows section and make a place for the Linux to be installed. >> >> If you have Win 7 it has a disk partitioning program to do that >> included. Else you will have to use something else. > > Fedora 19 and 20 support [1] resizing NTFS volumes in both the guided and > custom partitioning paths. In Fedora 18 my recollection was that the guided > path had no UI for choosing how much to shrink the volume by. Whereas the UI > in F19 and F20 is much more obvious in the guided path, with a shrink button > that reveals a slider to choose the shrink amount. > > In custom partitioning, when you click on the NTFS volume, there's no obvious > UI for resizing, but the volume size field can be edited. Click on that, and > enter a smaller value, and this will cause free space to be made available > from which you can specify new mount points for a new installation. > > In all cases with the new installer UI, all layout changes merely create an > edit list. Nothing is changed on disk until you click the Begin Installation > button from the hub (the main menu). > > Chris Murphy > > > [1] This is a best effort support case, as the installer doesn't actually do > the resizing, it's done via the NTFS-3G. But it is a test case for Fedora QA > so it does get some testing and ought to work. >
That is a real improvement. I have looked at several Live-CD/DVDs but I can not ever recall installing one. I, personally, prefer fresh installs. I find is much easier to reconfigure a few things than to find and repair some odd-ball problem casued by a mixture of old and new settings. Maybe it's just me but I prefer to *use* my Linux install(s) than to constantly be *fixing* them. :-) -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
