Can I dual boot with fedora

bscho · 11-16-2018, 07:27 AM

Not having much luck dual booting with Fedora.

I have tried dual booting with Linux Mint 19 on a 32 Bit machine.

It does not appear to reclaim disk space so this is not good.

Much more difficult than Linux Mint.

I will run Gparted to resize to half but will not format the rest of the space and try again.

I suppose if I had Windoze on it I could resize in the disk manager.

Now just found out you need to click on the Linux Partition and then resize.

michaelk · 11-16-2018, 08:09 AM

If you can't post anything nice then don't...

There isn't much detail in the installation guide but you can reclaim hard drive space. Reclaim means you want to delete an existing partition and the shrink option will preserve data. I have not installed Fedora as a dual boot system so not familiar with the shrink option. I would prefer using gparted running from a live USB.

Installing a second linux OS might be more complex regardless of distribution if you have several partitions, using LVM, encryption or RAID.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...install-guide/

bscho · 11-16-2018, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

If you can't post anything nice then don't...

There isn't much detail in the installation guide but you can reclaim hard drive space. Reclaim means you want to delete an existing partition and the shrink option will preserve data. I have not installed Fedora as a dual boot system so not familiar with the shrink option. I would prefer using gparted running from a live USB.

Installing a second linux OS might be more complex regardless of distribution if you have several partitions, using LVM, encryption or RAID.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...install-guide/

Think I will have to go to the install guide now.

It installed after shrinking but now only boots Fedora. Think it has installed in the Linux Mint partition and lost my Linux Mint.

I'll run Gparted to see what has actually happened.

michaelk · 11-16-2018, 08:20 AM

It might be that grub was not configured to boot mint.

You can determine how the drive still partitioned using Fedora. Look at the output of the lsblk command

This guide might help too.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...ide/index.html

bscho · 11-16-2018, 08:24 AM

Run Gparted so:

No it did not delete my Linux Mint it took the second partition which was freed up.

Unfortunately, it did not give me a proper grub to choose which to boot.

I'll first do an update grub and see if it fixes it.

Otherwise I'll delete the Linux Mint partition and reinstall Linux Mint.

bscho · 11-16-2018, 09:01 AM

I deleted the Linux partition (not marked as Linux Mint) and left the Fedora partition that was marked and reinstalled Linux Mint 19.

Now it dual boots with Linux Mint the first on the grub menu.

I always liked Fedora and used it for many years but now I think Mint is smarter and easier to set up.

Now I'll try to make a good Fedora Desktop so would appreciate any ideas from others who have set their desktops up.