New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space.
Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for custom install won't enable. Only the automatic choice. Would typically make three partitions boot,root and home.
How do I see the free space?
On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:01 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space.
Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for custom install won't enable. Only the automatic choice. Would typically make three partitions boot,root and home.
How do I see the free space?
When Windows split the space, did it leave your second spare partition as unused free space or did it set the partition up ready for Windows to use straight away.
The latter is the usual cause of this problem, the Linux installer wants free unused space. Unused by anything. An empty formatted partition doesn't meet that criteria. Simply deleting that second partition, without doing anything more than just deleting it, is usually all that you need to do.
On 5/12/25 9:02 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:01 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space.
Trying to put f42 server on the free space. The installer options for custom install won't enable. Only the automatic choice. Would typically make three partitions boot,root and home.
How do I see the free space?
When Windows split the space, did it leave your second spare partition as unused free space or did it set the partition up ready for Windows to use straight away.
The latter is the usual cause of this problem, the Linux installer wants free unused space. Unused by anything. An empty formatted partition doesn't meet that criteria. Simply deleting that second partition, without doing anything more than just deleting it, is usually all that you need to do.
It doesn't show as being formatted or a partition.
On 12 May 2025, at 13:02, Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
New system with 1.2T drive. Has Windows 11 on it. Split the drive with the windows manager for 1.2T free space.
The numbers do not make sense. That would leave no space used by windows.
You need to tell windows to SHRINK its partition. Which will leave space shown as unused.
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