My parents are fed up with windows 11 slowing down their old HP desktop to near unusable levels. It is so bad that the right click menu can take up to 6 seconds to load. Anyway I created a free 900GB ext4 partition that I want to install to but how do I get the fedora KDE installer to detect that free space (sda6)?
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sda6 is the fourth one (after sda3) in the list on the bottom picture. The partitions seem to be physically in that order, but labeled differently, as they were created. You can reorder the labels but it's also fine left alone AFAIK.
What I mean by not detected is that the counter for free space at the bottom says 10MiB only. I want to tell the installer to go there for install
I've never installed fedora specifically but...
It's either ext4 or free, can't be both. Now, if it was ext4, Fedora would for sure detect it as such, so I'm not sure what it is.
I assume you would want to click on sda6 in the installer, then the "-" button to delete whatever is there, and then it would recognize it as available space.
I know where sda6 is what I need is to tell the installer that specific partition is where I want to install fedora
It looks like the installer in the background of picture 2 is seeing sda6, what issue is it having, can you post a screenshot of that whole window without other windows on top?