"It didn't give a choice to map some partitions to just a mount point without formatting and some others were simply not visible."
> Distro-tossing isn't a way how you can polish your Linux skills.
I agree with you. Though my primary purpose behind using Linux is not to polish my Linux skills (I've been using Linux for close to 20 years now) but is driven by my belief in open source, Linux's flexibility and the great ecosystem of software. However, one has only a finite amount of time and since Anaconda didn't provide me with an option to work with my current setup (I explored various options like advanced mode etc without much success), I had to move on to something that worked which turned out to be the Ubiquity installer used by Pop!_OS. I probably should have tried to document the probelms and raise an issue in the Anaconda forum/github - will do that next time I try Fedora.
> It didn't give a choice to map some partitions to just a mount point without formatting and some others were simply not visible.
Yeah, I got it. I've just wanted to get a more deeper explanation of your existing partitioning situation - I've set up RHEL derivatives on some very vague partitioning variations. Never thought that there could be the problems. Maybe it's just a GUI limitation?
I think it is almost certainly a GUI limitation. E.g. I have a ext4 partition that I usually mount on /other and preserve it when distro-hopping. I can't remember exactly but one of these things happened - it didn't detect this partition / didn't give me the option to preserve it / didn't allow me to specify the mount point for it. Had a similar issue with another partition too. I think I also had some minimum space related restriction that refused to go away. Wish I had taken notes/pictures.
As I mentioned earlier:
"It didn't give a choice to map some partitions to just a mount point without formatting and some others were simply not visible."
> Distro-tossing isn't a way how you can polish your Linux skills.
I agree with you. Though my primary purpose behind using Linux is not to polish my Linux skills (I've been using Linux for close to 20 years now) but is driven by my belief in open source, Linux's flexibility and the great ecosystem of software. However, one has only a finite amount of time and since Anaconda didn't provide me with an option to work with my current setup (I explored various options like advanced mode etc without much success), I had to move on to something that worked which turned out to be the Ubiquity installer used by Pop!_OS. I probably should have tried to document the probelms and raise an issue in the Anaconda forum/github - will do that next time I try Fedora.