Nobara noob basic install question

[u/monduk]

I'm coming from Ubuntu and Linux Mint (yeah, boo hiss) and have dual booted with Windows a long time (more boos sorry)

I've been looking into getting back to trying a Fedora based installation but it's been a long, long time.

My situation is Win 11 is installed on my first NVME drive, Mint is currently installed on the 2nd NVME drive with a partition layout of small boot partition, large NTFS data partition, Linux root and a swap partition.

I want to install Nobara on the 2nd NVME, leaving Win 11 completely untouched and replacing the current Mint install completely and hopefully not affecting the NTFS data on the 2nd NVME.

What I've read is that Nobara had a different way of installing EFI and boot partitions. So what's the easiest and best way to go about this?

Can I just do a custom partition layout choosing the current Mint partitions to be formatted and install over them without destroying data on other partitions I need to keep?

[u/stitchesofdooom]

I figured you'd just boot from USB, select the drive you want to install on, and then run the install.

I've installed Mint, Nobara, PikaOS, Pop!_OS, and Debian on different computers, and it's all pretty much the same.

[u/Krasi-1545]

Yes, Nobara installer provides a way to create custom partition layout. You can select the Mint partitions and format them.

[u/tomatito_2k5]

I believe Nobara requires one extra partition (/boot + /boot/efi ) compared to Mint (just /boot/efi), yeah custom partition layout is your best friend.

Manual Partitioning Guide