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Section 3 – Dual Boot Starting with Linux
– Creating Partitions
This section will provide instructions on how to set up dual boot on a blank drive
with a Linux distro installed first. Ubuntu 22.04 will be used in this example.
For a more in-depth walkthrough on installing Linux on ThinkStation, please see
the corresponding whitepaper for the distro of your choice. As of this writing,
whitepapers for Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian are available.
If Linux is already installed on the system, its partitions can be resized using the
trial mode from USB stick. The partition cannot be shrunk from within the OS
unlike Windows because Linux is currently “running” those partitions, so they
cannot edited.
Step 1: Insert Linux boot key into the system, power the system on, and press
F12 when the Lenovo splash screen appears to open the Boot Menu. Select the
Linux bootable media from the list.