Arch Linux

bearfoot

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Registered: 2015-07-06

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Installing Arch Linux on a Dual Boot system of Fedora & Windows.

Hi,
I am following the Beginner's Guide for installing Arch Linux, but as I have already a dual boot system of Fedora & Windows, I have a question.
The beginner's guide says: "When using a UEFI motherboard, one EFI System Partition must be created"
But as the installation of fedora already created one, I am wondering if this is necessary or two partitions are possibly even going to mess things up.

bearfoot

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Registered: 2015-07-06

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Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Dual Boot system of Fedora & Windows.

I also have to mention that the fedora installation managed to install and work with a fat16 EFI partition while on the Arch wiki it is recommended to have a fat32 EFI partition

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

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Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Dual Boot system of Fedora & Windows.

i think it is better to keep fadora bootloader

because the kernel name changes evry update.

ezik

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Dual Boot system of Fedora & Windows.

Share the ESP between all your operating systems.

The recommendation to use FAT32 is simply because it is more modern and robust than FAT16

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