Recently got my old laptop back from my parents. It’s a Sony VAIO VPCSB, which can be found here
Now, the problem is, when I boot up the live environment with F41, the Greetings screen pops up and I’m prompted to choose to install. However, clicking the option sends the pointer in loading state and it buffers for 1 minute and stops. Re-launching the Anaconda Installer does the same thing.
Gave it a shot through cli, with this command - sudo dbus-launch liveinst
and got this error:
I knew something was sketchy with the Storage device as it wasn’t a regular one but instead a Quad 64GB SSD configured in RAID 0 (see image 1.odp) Apologies for uploading in odp, but I had nothing else in a live environment to paste together two images.
So I tried the lsblk --fs command and it gave the following output :
Now I understand the issue, It’s unable to detect the correct drive therefore giving the partnum = udev_info[“ID_PART_ENTRY_NUMBER”] error
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Any idea to fix this? I just want to get a dual-boot with windows 10 and will be using Fedora Linux till the last breath of this laptop as I can’t upgrade to windows 11. I’d be still using windows 10 in offline mode to run games or softwares that I’m unable to do so on Linux. Any response would be highly appreciated…
When we introduced BTRFS it came just on Workstation/Spins because of issues with Raid. I do not know how much this is still an issue today.
An other point is, that your raid is formatted in ntfs which is not really working with Fedora. I mean Fedora needs a own file system and it looks like your Raid config is not allowing that.
Is your intention to start over from scratch or do you want to keep this raid config as is?
If yes I guess you would need an extra physical drive to install fedora on it.
Is “New Volume” intender to be used by Fedora?
If so the way you give the installer disk space to work with is to have free space on the disk.
To do this delete the “New Volume” from Windows and try again.
Actually, I planned to dual boot Windows 10 and Fedora 41 because the some of the software I use for my academic purposes still requires the base windows operating system. they unfortunately didn’t release Linux versions. Since Microsoft is repeatedly announcing the deadline of Windows 10 in the coming September, I decided to prepare asap. The only problem after the support end is security. Now I’m not the typical user who doesn’t know what to do online or click Scammy link or so. But still, without A.V It will get harder and harder as time passes.
This is where Linux Comes in, since most of my work relies on the Google Workspace Applications, which are, thank god, cloud native. Besides, Online account integration with GNOME is pretty smooth too. But I will come across stuff that will be windows only. When that happens, I’d switch to windows and while it’s disconnected just use the software and reboot to Linux when I’m done with it.
Oh and the worst part is, this laptop sucks in terms of internals. Sony took it to extreme and the hard disk is hard to remove. it has those brown strips, basically, not the regular type of hard disk we see, it is of 2.5" but it’s covered with strips. if that strip gets damaged, I don’t think this laptop will remain of any use. So, No unfortunately, I can’t replace it with another physical drive…
@barryascott Should I delete Windows Partitions and Install Fedora First and then try to install Windows? I don’t need a bootloader, since I have Super Grub and I can boot through my usb drive if needed.
I assume that if you have free space on the disk that Fedora will install for you.
I have always installed Windows first then installed Fedora second on my dual-boot systems.
