I’d like to install the image BlackMagic Design is sharing for installing DaVinci Resolve. It’s based on Rocky Linux 8.6 - I have a doubt and I need to be 100% sure so I thought I’d ask here!
I am going to install on a separate SSD. Windows lives on a different SSD and then I have a bunch of other drives for data.
I don’t want multi-boot, I will boot Windows or Rocky Linux via the BIOS boot manager, so Windows is going to be booted automatically if I don’t do anything.
So I really want Rocky Linux NOT to touch the other drives!
When I ended up on the destination menu, all the drives were shown and selected - which made me pause a moment
I de-selected them all, selected the one I wanted to use (only that drive has a check mark), used the tool to wipe it and clicked “done”.
Can someone please confirm that this is NOT going to touch my other drives? Sorry if this is a basic question but better safe than sorry
I’m attaching a screen picture of what I see.
Thanks for your help!
Having more that one OS installed that you can boot to is “multi-boot” regardless of how you choose the OS on boot. I too like the “BIOS boot manager” approach (UEFI, not legacy BIOS).
Rocky Linux 8.6 has not been supported since 8.7 was released. Currently (and to 2029) Rocky Linux 8 is “8.10”. That is the only supported Rocky Linux 8.
The 8.6 had security vulnerabilities (which have been discovered after it existed and fixed only in later/latest version). Nobody should connect an 8.6 system to internet.
A goal of Enterprise Linux is to be stable. Stable as in one could have installed 8.0 and service/application and the service/application should work up to EOL with all the updates applied, i.e. with 8.10.
If BlackMagic Design is unable or unwilling to verify that their product remains functional with (security) updated OS, then that is a lack in their support for their product.
I think it’s called the ‘regain space’ tool? - sorry, not in front of my computer now.
Yes I’m aware 8.6 is not supported but that’s what Blackmagicdesign is supplying.
I tried installing Resolve on a new install and I’m unable to do so because of all the missing dependencies etc - my Linux skills are limited, sorry
So 8.6 it is for now. I just want to see how it performs under Linux. If it works well I’ll think about using something more modern.
You had Automatic selected as is the default. I do always shift to the Custom. After that selecting Done goes to partitioning tool that shows existing and planned partitions on the selected drives. There one can choose partitions to remove and create. There is “auto-create” button too to get partitions that the Automatic would have chosen – and one can adjust the result.
When one selects Done on the partitioning tool, a popup will list all changes that will be made when the actual installation starts. If they all seem to be on the desired drive, then things ought to be ok.
If one wants to be really sure, then one physically disconnects the other drives before one boots the installer. One cannot touch what one cannot reach.
thanks @jlehtone
Yes, I could disconnect the drives, I was hoping not to have to gut my PC to remove the nvme SSD which is under some other cards
What I am basically looking for is the confirmation that the above setup - checkmark on the drive I want to use - means “I will be installing Rocky Linux on this selected drive and not touch the others”. When I ran it for the first time, the installer defaulted to ALL drives showing a checklist which made me “stop and think”
Happy to move to custom and inspect the partitions being created as well of course, that will give me even more visibility.
You’d think it would be that simple, but it isn’t; sometimes the installer will try to use other drives and partitions. While in the partitioning screen, keep checking every detail especially which “disks” is think’s it’s using. At the end of the partitioning screen there’s a summary screen like a dialog with a list of what’s it’s going to do, check every item on that list.
The word “Simple” doesn’t even pass by my mind when Linux is involved! That is why I asked here first.
It looks like I’ll have to physically unscrew my SSD from the motherboard to be safe… And this is only to test Resolve for Linux which is provided with an unsupported and vulnerable OS… Sigh!
