With the demise of Windows 10 I wanted to dual-boot to a Linux desktop and Fedora seemed to be the best shot. I’ve been following the instructions on Fedora’s Wiki (here).
But I can’t proceed with the installation since the partition I’ve created isn’t seen by the Fedora installer (I’m stuck at step 5). The only disks that show up are the 128GB USB drive I am running Fedora on. The 300GB partition I created isn’t showing up at all (I’ve made sure it’s formatted correctly).
Can anyone help me figure out what’s wrong? Thank you -
My take is that if you’ve used Bootcamp to create a partition for Windows, which instead would be used for Fedora, Bootcamp formatted the allocated partition instead of leaving it as empty space.
If true, at this point you should boot a live ISO (e.g. Fedora Workstation), and delete the partitions created by Bootcamp for Windows, leaving them just as empty space.
Then Fedora’s Anaconda installer would recognize the empty space and propose it for Fedora installation.
BTW, what model of Macbook do you have? Fedora runs well on many older MacBooks, but on newer ones there might be some issues.
As always, remember to back up before performing disk operations.
I am unable to delete the partition without restoring the main disk to its original size. Disk Utility will not let me leave the partition unformatted; it doesn’t have that option.
Here it is - the only external disk connected is Time Machine. The USB drive created with FedoraMediaWriter (which doesn’t show up until I reboot into EFI), and Fedora boots without any issues off of the USB drive.
Click on the first entry then click on “partition”. Then delete all partitions and keep the first APFS partition. Then create a new partition. You should get to this state:
I am unable to delete the partition meant for Fedora. Its the same problem I mentioned earlier - macOS Ventura will only let me reformat it, I can’t delete it.
Note that the previous post suggested using fedora to delete that partition and leave the space unallocated for use during installation.
MacOS apparently does not allow that to happen so it is up to you to select the proper tool for freeing up space. Linux is much more flexible than macOS.
Are you still having issues dual booting macOS and Fedora?
I just installed latest Windows 10 using Bootcamp on a 2017 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro14,1) running macOS Ventura 13.7.8 and I am able to delete the Windows partition using Disk Utility.
If you click “partition” on the top device, and select the Windows (BOOTCAMP) partition, it should let you delete it using the “-” sign or tell you a reason why it can’t be deleted in the bottom right cornet.
I am also able to create a new partition for Fedora off of the macOS partition.
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