On 12/8/22 07:23, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-08-11 at 15:24 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
>> Thanks for your response George. but your answer doesn't tell me what
>> to do.
>> If I select automatic, and there is space available for Fedora, will
>> it proceed to install F alongside Win in a dual boot setup?
>> Or will it clean the whole disk and leave only Fedora?
>> Thank you.
> I suggest you try it. The last time I did this was many years ago, but
> IIRC Fedora did not blindly remove an existing Windows partition (or
> other Linux for that matter). In any case it will tell you what it's
> about to do and ask you to confirm.
It may depend on what type of install you want to do. I recently
installed F36 on a new system I had built, where I was putting Windows
Drive C, Ubuntu and Fedora boot partitions on an SSD, had 2 3TB disks
for windows data, a 1TB disk for the rest of Ubuntu and a 3TB disk for
the rest of Fedora. Windows and Ubuntu were installed first. I just
pointed the installer at the partition I wanted Fedora installed in,
which was after configuring the partition as GPT as a Dos partition can
only address 2TB is storage, and told the installer I wanted the
partition on the 3TB drive as "/", and the partition on the ssd as
"/boot". Having done this the installer refused to do the install
because being a UEFI install the installer wanted a mounted UEFI system
partition, so I had to reduce the size of the "/boot" partition to
create a 100MB partition as an EFIOS (I think) partition specified to be
mounted as the installer wanted, and then it proceeded to completion.

As Patrick said, I would expect the automatic installation to set up the
necessary partitions for you, but I don't know for sure as I have never
done an automatic install, I have always specified the layout I wanted
explicitly.