How To Install Fedora Workstation 23 Dual Boot Mode With Windows 8 /8.1/ 10
Fedora OS
Fedora is an open source operating system based on the linux kernel,developed by the community-supported fedora project and sponsored by RedHat. Fedora is designed as a secure,general purpose operating system.Fedora is said to be the second-most commonly used Linux distribution,after Ubuntu. Fedora Workstation is comes with various platforms such as x86_64, Power-PC,IA-32, ARM. Fedora workstation has very clean and smooth user interface It can be easily fit in any desktop or Laptop, It can be used for developments, and much professional level. Fedora Team officially released its new operating system called fedora workstation 23 on 2015-10-27 and fedora team also planned to release its next operating system called fedora 24 on 2016-05-17.
What are the features are added in Fedora 23:
Fedora 23 workstation is now released.It is reliable,user-friendly and powerful operating system.Fedora 23 workstation features the latest GNOME 3.18 release courtesy of the GNOME courtesy.This release includes updates to the File browser,new calendar and To-do applications.
System Requirements
To install Fedora 23 in dual-boot mode with Windows 8/8.1/10, the following minimum requirements should meet.
1. Minimum 1 GHz Processor.
2. Minimum 2 GB RAM.
3. At least 60GB Hard disk with Unallocated space.
Before installing Fedora workstation 23, you must have working Windows 7/ 8/ 8.1/ 10 installation, as it is always good thing to install any Linux after Windows installation. If you want to install linux in dual boot mode then you must leave one Partition with Unallocated space for Linux (Fedora 23) installation.The other important thing is you must have one bootable media device with fedora workstation 23 installation files.
Read Also : Important things to do before install os in dual boot mode with windows
For install fedora on Virtual Machine this may help you : How to Create and Use Virtual Machines
Fedora Workstation 23 Installation
Select 'Start Fedora Live' using keyboard. Here your mouse pointer won't work.
2. For install Fedora into your Hard disk Select Install to Hard Drive
Select your language and select language with your country, Finally click continue to go next step.
This is the main window for fedora 23 installation. Here you will find all the option. select all option and define all setting one by one
1.Keyboard
In this step select your keyboard layout and click done
2. Time & Date
Choose your time zone by click you country in the map. In this step you can enable network time and also set NTP(Network Time Protocol) Server.If you select this option your time will be automatically update through internet.
3. Network and Host Name
Here you can set your own host name. The default host name is localhost.localdomain. you can set your own host name. This host name will appear in your terminal after your username. eg. root@fedora. Here root is super user and fedora is host name.
4. Installation Destination
In this step, we need to define our Installation Destination. For choosing the install destination click on Install Destination in left side which marked with exclamation Symbol.
By default Fedora will choose the free space to get install the OS, because we have already left Unallocated space for Linux installation. The default option is 'Automatic allocation'. This option will automatically create linux system partition. On other side if you want to choose the advance partition setup for Linux install, For that we have to choose “I will Configure partitioning” and click on Done button for next step. Here i will choose advanced option.
At the bottom of window you can see the Total space and Available space. After creating partition the available space will be reduce . For create the new partition click '+' (add) symbol at the left corner of the window. In Linux we must create three partition that is /boot, swap and / partitions. If you are using the modern computer with UEFI boot method then you must pick up the /boot/efi partitions which is already exist in the list.
/boot
create /boot partition with 500 mb which is recommended size.click add mount point to create This partition are used in the old Bios booting method.
If you use the modern computers this /boot partition wont work. In this case you must pick up the /boot/efi partition which are already exist you can see that partition in the partition list left at the side of the window.
swap
Create swap partition at least 1 GB memory. let me give 2GB memory space then click Add Mount Point button
/ Partition
Finally Create / partition leave blank, because we’re using all available space.
For Old Bios System
Finally your created partition will be like this. Make sure your file system is ext4. Finally click Done Option.
For UEFI System
Finally Click Done and Accept Changes to create partitions.
Click Begin installation in the right Corner of the windows.
User Creation
During installation we must set the root user password and also create one normal user with username and password
Root User Password
Recommended to create a strong user password and also confirm that . A strong password must contain one symbol, number and special character.
Create Normal User
Set Full name, Username and password. The strong password will increase your security. you can set this user as administrator by check 'Make this user administrator' Checkbox. After finish click Done at the left top corner.
Final Step
Wait few minutes the installation of fedora workstation 23 being completed. After complete just click Quit button you system will be restart and then you can use Fedora Workstation 23. After system rebooting, you will see the Dual boot menu option for Fedora 23 and your Windows, Choose Fedora 23 to boot the system into fedora desktop.
Conclusion
In this tutorial we have seen how to install Fedora workstation 23 and Windows 8 with multi-boot option in one hard drive.I Hope this guide will help you to understand how to setup dual boot and install fedora 23. Any query regarding above tutorial Feel free to leave your comments below, or contact us.we will get back to you with solution as soon as possible. Subscribe our Email News Feed to get more tutorial about linux. Thank You visit again.
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