Install fedora with windows 10

This tutorial will guide you on how to install Fedora 32 Workstation in dual boot with Microsoft Windows 10 Operating System pre-installed on a BIOS firmware machine.

If your computer has no pre-installed operating system and you plan to install Fedora Linux in dual-boot with a Microsoft operating system, you should first install Windows on your machine before installing Fedora Linux.

However, try to disable Fast Boot and Secure Boot options in UEFI firmware based machines if you plan to install Fedora in dual boot with Windows.

Also, if Windows installation was performed in UEFI mode (not in Legacy Mode or CSM – Compatibility Support Module), Fedora installation should also be performed in UEFI mode.

The installation procedure of Fedora Linux alongside a Microsoft Windows 10 OS requires no special configurations to be made in BIOS-based motherboards, except maybe changing the BIOS boot order.

The only requirement is, you must allocate a free space on the disk with at least 20 GB in size in order to use it later as a partition for Fedora installation.

Requirements

• Download Fedora 38 Workstation ISO Image
• Download Fedora 38 Server ISO Image

Preparing Windows Machine for Dual-Boot for Fedora

Open your windows Disk Management utility and right-click on C: partition and select Shrink Volume in order to resize the partition for Fedora installation.

Give at least 20000 MB (20GB) depending on the size of C: partition and hit Shrink to start partition resize as shown below.

After resizing partition, you will see a new unallocated space on the hard drive. Leave it as default and reboot the system in order to proceed with the Fedora installation.

Install Fedora 32 with Windows Dual-Boot

1. On the first step, download the Fedora DVD ISO image and burn it to a DVD disk or create a bootable USB flash drive using the Fedora Media Writer tool or other utility.

To create a bootable Fedora USB drive compatible with installation performed in UEFI mode, use Rufus utility or Etcher. Also, check out 10 useful tools to make a bootable USB drive from an ISO image.

Place Fedora bootable media into your machine appropriate drive, restart the machine and instruct the BIOS or UEFI firmware to boot from DVD/USB bootable media.

2. On the first installation screen, select Install Fedora Workstation Live 32 and press [enter] key to continue.

3. After the installer loads the Fedora Live system, click on Install to Hard Drive option in order to start the installation process.

4. On the next screen, select the language that will be used during the installation process and hit on the Continue button.

5. The next screen will present you Fedora Installation Summary menu. First, click on the Keyboard menu, choose your system keyboard layout, and hit on the top Done button to complete this step and go back to the main menu, as illustrated in the below images.

6. Next, click on the Installation Destination menu, check your machine hard disk and select the Advanced Custom (Blivet-GUI) option to configure the storage. Again, hit on the Done button to enter the Blivet GUI Partitioning program.

7. In this step, select the free space that resulted after shrinking the Windows partition will be used for installing Fedora Workstation. Select the free space and hit on the + button to create a new partition

8. On partition settings window, enter the size of the partition, select a file system type, such as the robust ext4 file system to format the partition, add a label for this partition and use /(root) as the mount point of this partition.

When you finish hit the OK button to apply the new configuration. Use the same procedure to create the swap partition or other partitions for your system. In this tutorial, we’ll create and install Fedora on a single partition mounted in /(root) tree and we’ll configure no swap space.

9. After you’ve created the partitions, review the partition table and press the top Done button twice to confirm configuration and hit on Accept Changes button from the pop-up Summary of Changes window to apply storage partition configurations and return to the main menu.

10. To start the installation process, just hit on the Begin Installation button, as illustrated in the following image.

11. After the installation completes, eject Fedora installation media and reboot the machine.

Fedora 32 Post Installation

12. After the system boots up, follow the Fedora post-installation instructions as shown.

12. Allow applications to determine your location.

13. Connect online accounts to access your email accounts, contacts, documents, photos and more.

14. Next, add the name of a new user and set up a strong password for the new account.

15. Finally, your Fedora system is ready to use.

16. After reboot, you will be directed to the GRUB menu, where for 5 seconds you can choose what operating system you want the machine to boot from Fedora or Windows.

Sometimes, in cases of dual-booting Linux-Windows in UEFI firmware machines, the GRUB menu is not always displayed after reboot. If that’s your case, boot the machine in to Windows 10, open a Command prompt with elevated privileges and execute the following command in order to restore the GRUB menu.

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\fedora\shim.efi

17. Log in to Fedora Desktop with the account and open a Terminal console and update the fedora system by issuing the below command.

$ sudo dnf update

18. In case you want to access a Windows partition under Linux, open Disks utility, select the Windows NTFS partition, and hit on mount button (the button with a triangle sign).

19. To browse the mounted Microsoft Windows partition, open Files -> Other Locations and double-click on NTFS partition Volume to open the NTFS partition.

Congratulations! You’ve successfully installed the latest version of Fedora 32 Workstation in dual-boot with Windows 10. Reboot the machine and select Windows from the GRUB menu in order to switch the operating system back to Windows 10.

Dual booting is the practice of installing multiple operating systems on the same PC. It’s a popular and convenient way of running multiple operating systems such as Linux and Windows on the same host without having to opt for virtualization which does not provide a bare-metal experience which sometimes would be necessary.

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of having a dual-boot setup of Windows 10 and the latest Fedora. At the time of writing this guide, Fedora 38 is the latest version.

Prerequisites

For this guide, you need to have the following:

• Windows 10 is installed on your PC, which will be the primary OS on which we will create a partition for installing Fedora.
• A fast and stable internet connection for downloading the Fedora ISO image.
• At least 8GB USB drive to be used as an installation medium.

Create a Free Space On Your Hard Drive

With Windows 10 as the primary OS, you need to reserve a partition on which you will install Fedora 38. To achieve this, first, launch the disk management utility by pressing the ‘Windows logo Key + R‘. Next, type ‘diskmgmt.msc‘ and hit ENTER.

This opens the ‘Disk Management‘ console that displays the current disk partitions on the Windows system.

Next, we will create a reserved partition for Fedora 38. To do this, we will need to identify a volume and shrink some space. To demonstrate this, we will shrink some space on Volume E and create a new partition.

Therefore, we right-click on ‘New Volume E‘ and select ‘Shrink space‘.

Next, specify the amount of space to shrink which will be the size of the partition reserved for installing Fedora 38. In our case, we have specified 54678MB which is approximately 54GB.

Next, click ‘Shrink‘.

Below is our reserved partition which now appears as an unallocated partition.

Create a Bootable USB Drive of Fedora in Windows

The second step is to make a live USB medium for Fedora. First, download the latest Fedora ISO file from the official Fedora download page.

Once you have downloaded the ISO image, use a tool like Rufus or Balena Etcher to make the USB drive bootable.

Also, check out the following useful tools to make a bootable USB drive from an ISO image.

Next, plug in the USB medium to your PC and reboot. Be sure to configure the BIOS settings and set the USB installation media to have the highest boot priority so that the system can boot from it.

Start the Installation of Fedora

Once the system reboots, the GRUB bootloader will appear on your screen as shown. The first option is selected by default. So hit ENTER to begin the installation.

Shortly afterward, the Fedora 38 welcome screen will be displayed. Click the ‘Install Fedora’ button to begin the installation.

Next, select your preferred installation language and click ‘Continue’.

Moving on, the next step is to configure the partition table on your hard drive. So, click ‘Installation Destination’.

The PC hard drive is displayed Under ‘Device selection‘ with the amount of free space available for the installation. This should correspond to the reserved space created earlier in Windows. In our case, we have 53.4GB free of space.

By default, the automatic partitioning scheme is selected. We will go with this which places all the partitions under the root filesystem (/).

Next, click ‘Done’.

Once done, click the button to commence the installation of Fedora 38.

The installation will begin and will take some time depending on the state of your hard drive. In our case, this took roughly 15 minutes.

Once the installation is complete, click ‘Finish Installation’.

Be sure to reboot the system, and upon system reboot, you will see the Windows 10 entry on the GRUB menu as shown.

We will select the first option to finish setting up Fedora. Once Fedora starts up, click ‘Start Setup’ to continue setting it up.

Decide whether to turn location services and automatic problem reporting on or off and hit ‘Next’.

Next, click ‘Enable Third-Party Repositories’ if you want to have the benefit of having third-party repositories enabled by default. Then click ‘Next’.

Choose whether to add any of your online accounts. You can skip this step if you wish to connect to them later. In this case, we will click ‘Skip’.

Next, type in your full name and username to create a regular login user. Then click ‘Next’.

Be sure to also provide the user’s password. Then click ‘Next’.

Finally, click ‘Start Using Fedora Linux’ to finish the Setup.

Conclusion

This wraps up our guide on the installation of a dual boot setup of Fedora 38 and Windows 10. Your feedback and comments are welcome.

The new updates of the operating systems are always well received, since they offer news and improvements for the usability of the user in most cases, as well as correction of different errors..

Fedora has made available to its users the Fedora 33 Rawhide beta which will be officially released in October 2020 as the new update of this popular system. In this latest version we will be able to see different novelties among which are the following.

As it is a beta version, it is advisable for TechnoWikis to try it in a virtual environment , but if you trust Fedora and use Windows 10 at the same time, TechnoWikis has interesting news for you and it will be possible to use it on the same Windows computer 10 and Fedora 33 using the same hardware resources..

TechnoWikis will explain through this tutorial how to create this dual boot on the computer and then simply define with which system you will log in.

Fedora 33 Rawhide is available for download at the following link:

 Fedora 33

Please note, if the Windows 10 operating system installation was in UEFI mode (but not in Legacy or CSM mode), the Fedora installation should also be processed in this same UEFI mode..

1. How to configure Windows 10 disk to install Fedora 33

The first step will be to configure the hard disk in Windows 10 where Fedora 33 has to be installed.

Step 1

To do this we right-click on the Start menu (or use the Windows + X keys) and select «Disk Management»:

Step 2

In the administrator we will right-click on the C drive (where Windows 10 is installed) and select «Reduce volume»:

Step 3

After this we will enter the size to be set for fedora 33, in this case 23 GB:

Step 4

We click on “Reduce” and we will see the following as a result:

The space on the hard disk for Fedora 33 we leave it as it is with the legend «Not assigned», that is, we will not apply any type of format on it.

2. How to prepare ISO image of Fedora 33

After this, the ISO image that we have downloaded must be configured as a bootable medium, be it
DVD or USB.

Step 1

In this case we recommend using Fedora Media Writer which is available at the following link:

 Fedora Media Writer

After installing it we will see the following. There we select the option «Custom image» and select the Fedora 33 image that we have previously downloaded:

Step 2

We click «Open»

Step 3

After this we select the medium where Fedora 33 will be installed. To complete the process we click on «Write to disk».

3. Set up dual boot between Windows 10 and Fedora 33

Step 1

Once the boot media is created, we go to the BIOS or UEFI configuration of the computer to select the type of media from which we will boot:

• Removable Devices: USB

• CD-ROM Drive: DVD

Press the F10 key and we will see that the system will start from Fedora 33 Rawhide:

Step 2

We select the option “Start Fedora-Workstation-Live Rawhide” in order to access the Fedora 33 live use medium:

Step 3

There we can navigate and get to know the system, but nothing will be stored, we click on “Install to Hard Drive”

Step 4

then the following will be displayed where we select the installation language of Fedora 33. We click «Continue» and we will see the following warning:

Step 5

We click on «I want to continue» and we will see the following:

Step 6

In this case we must click on “Installation destination” in order to select where to install Fedora 33,

Step 7

In this case we select the disk where Windows 10 is installed and activate the “Advanced Custom (Blivet GUI) box:

Step 8

We click on the «Done» button and we will see the structure of the selected disk:

Step 9

There we select the box with the free space:

Step 10

We click on the + sign and now define the following:

• In the «File system» field we select «ext4»

• In «Label» we can enter some name to the unit

• In «Mount point» we enter / to set the root

Step 11

We click «OK» and we will see the changes in the selected disk or partition:

Step 12

We click on the «Done» button and the following window will be launched with the new partition structure:

Step 13

If we agree, we click on the «Accept changes» button and we will be redirected to the main window:

Step 14

We click on “Start installation” to start the Fedora 33 installation process with Windows 10:

Step 15

When the process reaches its end we will see the following:

Step 16

We click «Finish installation» and we must reboot the system and when you log in, the initial configuration of Fedora 33 will open:

Step 17

We click Next and configure some system services:

Step 18

After this it will be possible to link accounts online if we wish:

Step 19

Next, we enter the username for Fedora 33:

Step 20

We enter the desired password:

Step 21

We click Next and with this we have configured Fedora 33 with Windows 10:

Step 22

When the computer is restarted or turned on, we can select which operating system we want to start with:

Step 23

On some computers with Linux and Windows dual boot and with UEFI firmware, the GRUB menu will be displayed after the restart, in which case we must access the Windows 10 computer and at the command prompt console (as administrators) execute:

 bcdedit / set {bootmgr} path \ EFI \ fedora \ shim.efi 

We can access Fedora 33 and update it with the following command:

 sudo dnf Update 

Step 24

If we want to access the Windows 10 partition from Linux, we must access Disks and there select the Windows 10 drive and click on the button «Mount the selected partition»:

Step 25

We must enter the administrator password:

Step 26

We click Authenticate and the unit will be mounted:

Step 27

To access this unit we will go to Files — Other locations and select the Windows 10 partition to see its contents:

With this method, Fedora 33 has been installed together with Windows 10.