On 9/13/2025 9:59 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?
Thank-you in advance.
I was wanting to do dual-boot solely so that I have a fall-back when
weekly patching or semi-annual upgrading resulted in Fedora being
minimally usable and with difficulty at that. .... or when it resulted
in Fedora being unusable. Both have happened to me, the first several
times.
Y'all have convinced me that dual boot is likely to be more trouble than
it's worth. So I'm dropping that. This renders a choice of second
distro moot. So I will want Fedora to be the only operating system
installed on my new desktop.
Still, the instructions I see online leave some important questions
unanswered. One at a time...
The term "BIOS" seems to be overloaded. It seems to have a broad
meaning referring to "firmware", "software" that is "built-in" to the
motherboard (or CPU?). It also seems to have a narrower meaning (for
desktops) referring to firmware other than "UEFI". So my apologies in
advance if my question is not well worded.
Do I have any choice or control over whether the new desktop (already
ordered) will be UEFI or the older BIOS, or is that already set once the
hardware has been put together?
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