Installing Fedora 40 Workstation alongside Ubuntu Studio

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by Marshall Brown, Sep 16, 2024.

  1. Marshall Brown

    Marshall Brown New Member

    Hello, everybody.

    Here's what I'm trying to do:
    -Dual boot Ubuntu Studio and Fedora Workstation 40, having the option to boot between one of them in Grub on boot up.

    Here's how far I got:
    -Installing Ubuntu Studio.

    Here's where I got hung up:
    -When in the Fedora 40 Workstation live installer, it gives me the choice to automatically or customize my partitions, and I selected custom to ensure I want it sized the way I want. Whenever I do this, it doesn't allow me to create a partition (Error: Unable to allocate requested partition scheme). It says there's only 2.5MB of the SSD available to install.

    Did I skip a step somewhere?

    Thanks for your time!

    Computer Specs:
    Dell Optiplex 5050
    3.5GHz i5
    24GB of Ram
    4TB SSD
     
  2. Taleman

    Taleman Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    My guess is there is no free space on the disk to create a new partition.
    I have not installed Fedora since 1995, so I do not know how it works, but Ubuntu installer lets you create partitions manually. Create a partition for swap and another partition for Ubuntu. Size that partition so there is enough unused space on disk so Fedora installer can create partition it needs.
     

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