Hi,
I'll be buying a new desktop PC in the next week or so. It'll probably be a DELL XPS 8700. I expect it'll arrive at about the same time as Fedora 20.
My usual approach would be to use PartitionMagic to shrink the Windows installation and install Fedora alongside it so I can dual-boot.
But it's just occurred to me that this new machine will be running Windows 8 and therefore will come with all the UEFI/Secure Boot nonsense. So before I place the order I just wanted to confirm that I'll be able to do something like that in a UEFI environment.
If anyone could point me to details about how I can do this, then that would be great.
Cheers,
Dave...
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On 12/9/2013 9:02 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
Hi,
But it's just occurred to me that this new machine will be running Windows 8 and therefore will come with all the UEFI/Secure Boot nonsense. So before I place the order I just wanted to confirm that I'll be able to do something like that in a UEFI environment.
If anyone could point me to details about how I can do this, then that would be great.
I can confirm that F19 installed on a Win8 laptop with UEFI boot in place. I did almost exactly what you're planning on doing with my daughters laptops last Christmas. It's worked fine.
- -- Mark Haney Network Administrator/IT Support Practichem W:919-714-8428
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Dave Cross davorg@gmail.com wrote:
But it's just occurred to me that this new machine will be running Windows 8 and therefore will come with all the UEFI/Secure Boot nonsense. So before I place the order I just wanted to confirm that I'll be able to do something like that in a UEFI environment.
I did it on an HP Pavilion g6. I did all my partitioning in Anaconda, and I'm fairly confident that if you start with a Win 8 machine and want a Win 8/Fedora dual boot, you can get it. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click