From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 8/24/24 01:39, Dave Royal wrote:   
   > philo@novabbs.com (philo) Wrote in message:   
   >   
   >> I ran a few more tests.   
   >> If the drive is NTFS to begin with, the default installer will evidently   
   >> assume one has Windows installed and shrink the partition...so that is   
   >> why I ended up with NTFS.   
   >>   
   >> What I should have done was the custom installation.   
   >>   
   >> My fault for not paying attention.   
   >> Still ,for a newbie wanting to dual boot...a nice safe way to do things.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I did a new installation of Tumbleweed yesterday. The box has   
   >   Win11 on an NVMe. I added an old SATA SSD (which had DOS   
   >   partitions) which I cleared by writing a GPT partition table to   
   >   it using gparted.   
   >   
   > I intended to let the TW installer suggest partitions and then   
   >   modify them. But its only suggestion was to shrink the NTFS   
   >   partition so I had to build SDA myself by adding the partitions   
   >   one by one. At the end it wasn't happy with my /boot/efi   
   >   partition size so I had to do the whole thing twice.   
   >   
   > Maybe I should have added a partition - swap say - onto the disk   
   >   with gparted and it would then have offered to install into the   
   >   unallocated space.   
   >   
   > I wonder if - had that been a new SSD - it would have offered to   
   >   use it?   
   >   
   > Anyway, the install (from DVD) was trouble-free. I've used Leap   
   >   and its antecedents for years. I'm testing whether I can get on   
   >   with TW.   
      
   That's why I'm using small drives to create "test" installs.   
      
   If you only had to do it twice...that's not all that bad   
      
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