Installing F20 alongside other Linux installs

[Marvin Kosmal]

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>I have a 1TB hard drive on which I have a couple of other Linux distros
i>nstalled.  Distro 1 has its root on /dev/sdb1 and then swap as
>/dev/sdb2 with the home partition on dev/sdb5.  Distro 2 has its root on
>/dev/sdb6, swap on /dev/sdb7, and home on /dev/sdb8.

>When I go to install Fedora 20, it sees the free space (about 800GB) on
>sdb, but insists on installing the first partition I create for it
>(root) on /dev/sdb3.  It doesn't appear that this works as the install
>fails with insufficient space, but I don't see how to overwrite during
>the install the option for the first Fedora partition to be /dev/sdb9
>instead (and proceed from there).

>Am I missing something?  Is this possible?

>Thanks.



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THis is what I would do

Have Distro 1 use /dev/sdb7 for swap..

Installl Distro 3 on /dev/sdb2

No need for separate  swap each distro..

HTH

Marvin


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I have a 1TB hard drive on which I have a couple of other Linux distros
> installed.  Distro 1 has its root on /dev/sdb1 and then swap as
> /dev/sdb2 with the home partition on dev/sdb5.  Distro 2 has its root on
> /dev/sdb6, swap on /dev/sdb7, and home on /dev/sdb8.
>
> When I go to install Fedora 20, it sees the free space (about 800GB) on
> sdb, but insists on installing the first partition I create for it
> (root) on /dev/sdb3.  It doesn't appear that this works as the install
> fails with insufficient space, but I don't see how to overwrite during
> the install the option for the first Fedora partition to be /dev/sdb9
> instead (and proceed from there).
>
> Am I missing something?  Is this possible?
>
> Thanks.
>
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