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:
good morning,
(background)
I (finally!) have a new desktop on its way. It's supposed to be
totally blank; that is, it will have whatever firmware, bios, and
other software the manufacturers of the parts put on those parts, but
nothing else. No windows, no other operating system. The desktop
will not connect to any other workstation, desktop, laptop, notebook,
cell phone, server, LAN, or WAN. It will have one ethernet
connection to one phone modem, which will provide internet service.
The new desktop will not be an e-mail server or a web server. It is
for common "home use". I will not be gaming on it. I will be the
desktop's sole user.
The desktop will have two internal drives: one HDD for "user" data,
one M.2(?) NVMe(?) drive for the operating systems and installed
applications. This desktop will not be "DIY"; it's bought from a
local pc store.
I will want the new desktop to be dual-boot: Fedora Workstation plus
one other Linux distro. I will want Fedora to be the top choice in
the grub menu. If it matters, I'm leaning towards Ubuntu for that
second operating system, but I have a couple reservations/hesitations
about that.
(question)
I've groped around the web, especially the Fedora Docs web site
("https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/";). I've not found any
instructions on how to install on a blank desktop, let alone how to
do a dual-boot install. What I found predates by years the new
Anaconda and the new dnf. Where are good, detailed instructions for
doing a dual- boot install, Fedora + one other Linux distro, on a
blank desktop?
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.
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?
If both installs support installing to btrfs, you could even use a
single filesystem for both and just give each one a certain subvolume.
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