On 9/13/2025 5:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 9/13/25 4:40 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 9/13/2025 3:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 9/13/25 8:59 AM, home user via users wrote:
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As long as you don't use all the space when installing Fedora, you
can install the other one. The other distro should be able to share
the EFI partition and create its own boot entry. It's possible that
the grun install will detect the other OS, but normally you will use
the BIOS boot selector to pick which one to boot.
What is "grun"?
Oops, "grub".
Does it matter which distro I install first?
Shouldn't matter, as long as whatever you install first allows you to
leave space for the other one.
This is an important part of why I'm doing this thread now, before the
hardware arrives. I want to plan the install properly, so I get it
right the first time. I also want to be ready when the last piece of
hardware does arrive. I don't know when that will be; amazon has this
nasty tendency of sitting on parts of orders for over a week before
shipping.
By default, Fedora uses the "btrfs" file system, right?
By default, Ubuntu uses the "ext4" file system, right?
Is this going to cause any problems or affect the installs?
Both can use either, but I don't know what Ubuntu can install to. Are
you planning on sharing /home between them?
not yet decided. On my old desktop (Fedora and windows-7 dual-boot),
Fedora being able to access the windows-7 partition was very useful; I
never regretted it. windows-7 had copy-from-only access to the Fedora
partitions. That was occasionally inconvenient, but I don'y trust
windows anywhere near as much as I do Fedora. So overall I was glad
that windows had copy-from-only access to the Fedora partitions.
If both installs support installing to btrfs, you could even use a
single filesystem for both and just give each one a certain subvolume.
subvolume? Something else I'm completely unfamiliar with.
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