[Test-Announce] Fedora 22 Rawhide 20150203 nightly compose nominated for testing

[Dan Mossor]

On 02/03/2015 06:13 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 18:27 -0500, Joerg Lechner wrote:
>> Hi,
>> silly question:
>> I would like to test now F22-Rawhide i.e. LXDE. My system ist a fast
>> laptop with Win 8.1 and Fedora on an external disk. I don't want to
>> test in a sandbox.
>> Is in this stage of development of F22-Rawhide danger that Fedora
>> could damage the windows installation? F22-Rawhide will be on a
>> seperate spare external disk connected via USB to the Windows laptop.
>> Kind Regards
>
> Nothing's 100% guaranteed, but if you don't select the internal drive
> as a target disk during installation, it's very unlikely that
> installing F22 to the external drive will affect your existing Windows
> install in any way.
>
However, Fedora has been known to modify UEFI boot settings in such a 
way that the system will not boot at all without that external drive 
attached. [1]


1- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dmossor/uefi-recovery

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