I need some help with regards to installing fedora on UEFI. I’ve installed fedora a few times before already, but only on legacy systems, so I’m not sure how to do this: I’ve got windows 11 on my laptop, I want it gone. I can delete all partitions, but the one I’m not sure what to do with is the EFI partition. Do I keep it, format it or create a new one? Also its size is 260MB (reported by anaconda), is that enough or should I expand it?
Your help is much appreciated, since I’m a noob when it comes to UEFI.
Hardware is an HP 14-dq0* laptop (~2021 Celeron CPU, 4GB RAM, Integrated GPU, 64GB storage)
Delete the old one and create a new one. If you have the space to spare, I’d even go ahead and make it 2GiB (though I’m not sure if Anaconda will let you make it larger than 1GiB). You might find 260 MB limiting in the future if you want to switch to sd-boot, use UKI images, or install multiple Linux OSs on that same disk.
When installing fedora (workstation edition) the installer shows a checkbox on the install destination tab (at lower left) to reclaim space. If the user checks that box then they have the option to delete all previous partitions. Doing that then allows a new clean install as if the drive were brand new and previously unused.
