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.
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