Re: Trying to understand how to preserve home with a legacy BIOS dual-boot Windows/Fedora install using WebUI

On 4/6/25 4:20 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
> OK, after watching the "Mount point assignment" video at https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-installer-redesign/ I have a better idea of what's going on. So here's what I think I'm supposed to do.  I used "Add mount point" to add a third row /home. After this, I have 3 mount points (/, /boot, and /home, in that order). Under the "Device" column, I set these to "root", "sda3", and "home", resp. And in the "Reformat" column, the first two are toggled on and the third is toggled off.
> 
> Then after going to "Review and install", I get an error "Unknown or invalid device 'BTRFS-blahblah-blah-blah-blah-blahblahblah-root/var/lib/machines' specified" (the blahs are hex digits). I thought I had it. And was I correct in choosing "Mount point assignment" instead of "Share disk with other operating system"?

Just played with this with the 20250405 Workstation Live compose for a 
few minutes, and I guess the answer is "works for me", mostly...

Keep in mind I'm installing on top of an earlier Fedora 42 pre-release, 
so that may enter into things somehow.

What worked (this feels equivalent to what you tried, I'm not sure what 
the difference is):

1. Select "Mount point assignment"
2. Select "root" as the device for the / mount point
3. Select "sda3" for /boot, check "Reformat"
4. Click "Add mount"
5. Enter "/home" for the mount point and select "home" for the device, 
make sure "Reformat" is NOT checked
6. Click "Next"
7. Proceed as normal


What didn't work:

1. Click three dots menu, "Launch storage editor"
2. Confirm "Launch storage editor"
3. Click "sda3"
4. Click "Edit mount point", enter "/boot", click "Save"
5. Click on "sda" in the breadcrumb menu to return to the storage editor
6. Click "home"
7. Calamity! "Critical error", "The installer cannot continue due to a 
critical error: Storage plugin failed" "s is undefined"
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