Re: Dual booting
Thanks.
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
On 6/29/22 00:16, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I think that I would want to dual-boot it (Windows/Fedora)
> in case I ever need Windows for something.
Here is how I do the booting on a Dell Studio. The first step is to
use the
windows disk management to shrink the C: partition. I forget whether or not
the Centos 7 Live disk has gparted on it or not. If not you can install it to
the image in memory for temporary use. Use gparted to further reduce the C:
drive to the size you expect to use with some extra. Assuming from the
Why the two-step process?
vintage of the 980 that it is not an efi boot system and that it is a
Master
Boot disk, make the rest of the free space an extended partition. Put a 500
to 800MB partition in the extended partition for your Linux boot as ext4.
Additional partitions can be made in the extended partition for whatever you
want to do. Things may be a bit tight.
I have a TB. Absent videos and the like,
things should not get tight.
The process described is more or less what I remember.
I used fdisk to do my partitioning before the install
and pointed the installer to the partitions I wanted.
IIRC I tried to use gparted once and got bit by something.
I've not tried it since.
The Fedora server install gives you the most freedom of specifying
your
custom system structure the graphical interface you want to use can be added
with the groupinstall of dnf.
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