Re: Doing a clean install doesn't work as it did before. Tried 8 times, but don't get results I am looking for??

On 2026-08-11 at 03:36 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> Go a notebook with Windows 11, but windows says it doesn't meet 
> new specs for latest 11. i7 4 cores 8 threads 2.9G 256G sda.
> Wiped the 11, and went to do clean install, but do not want btrfs.
> Went thru a number of attempts. Latest one was close but lots of 
> steps. Attempt 8.
> Get to the mount point step. Use to be select standard partitions, 
> and  it would give a layout and just excepting it was it.
> Now it says to create
> / root
> /boot/efi/efi
> /boot
> Didn't mention /home  but did that.
> / was about 80G
> boot/efi/efi was .2G
> /boot was 2G
> and /home rest of 256G.
> 
> Install seemed to go OK,
> but found that sda1 was starting at 34 instead of 2048?
> used gparted to move over, but moved it to 4096, so then moved 
> back to 2048?
> 
> Tried to mount sda1 but gave error about superblock checksums 
> not matching. Ran fsck and it didn't mention any errors, and then 
> the mount and it was happy. so assume fsck fixed something.
> 
> I've upgraded other machines to 44 with no issues with the 
> partition setups. Have two machines that have btrfs since I was 
> looking for option to change to standard. 
> 
> Am I missing some step. Did notice the Fedora XFCE image does no 
> home gparted included, so don't know if using it to setup partitions 
> would be easier. The 34 start was very strange.
> 
> 

If You want to have more control over partitions and volumes, I suggest
getting Fedora Server iso. It is exactly the same as other spins, but
with miminal amount of software installed. You can install xfce desktop
group package later:
dnf group install xfce-desktop
You can install any software You like later.

-- 
Łukasz Posadowski

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