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Hugh On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:13:32 +1100 David <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hugh > --snip of explanatory note about how e-mail that is not sent to the list does not help the Linux community-- Thankyou H > > Cheers > David > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 22:09, hd <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 20:21:45 +1100 > > David <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 16:44, hd via luv-main > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Hi Hugh > > > > > > Your system architecture sounds unlike anything that I would be > > > happy with so I'm unsure if that's a good starting place for me to > > > be offering advice :) > > > > > > That said, I can offer some suggestions in an attempt to be > > > helpful. > > > > > > You wrote: > [...] > > > so I'm restricting my suggestions accordingly so as to avoid > > > triggering a "not now" reaction :) > > > > > > 1) Don't try to mount the existing drives during the install. > > > It should be possible to ignore all the XFS drives, do whatever > > > Fedora considers to be a default install, reboot into that system, > > > then manually configure mounting of your XFS drives. You could > > > even temporarily disconnect the XFS drives until the install is > > > complete, for safety and simplicity. > > > > I had trouble changing my \home from the default under the BTFS / > > partition. Do you have some guidelines on how to move /home (I > > tried putting the XFS disk as /home in fstab and borked the system > > :(. > > > > H > > > > > > 2) Maybe this is not the time to be worrying about LVM. > > > It can be very useful, I use it on all my systems. But its > > > purpose is to carve up large storage devices into flexible chunks, > > > which by the sound of things is not what you need right now. > > > So applying the guideline of "not now", you could specify > > > a non-LVM install. > > > > > > 3) You haven't given any details why you need to use 5 drives. > > > When the time is right, look for ways to reduce that number. > > > > > Possibly - Not now - but filed for later :) > > H > > > > > 4) I stopped using Fedora after about 5 years because there > > > was too much compulsory churn to new untested features, > > > and moved to Debian. That was about 10 years ago. > > > > Radical as it sounds changing to Debian may actually be a solution > > to my problem :) > > H > > > > > > Cheers > > > David > > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
