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    Dual-Boot Question

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by FarmersDaughter, May 3, 2013.

  1. FarmersDaughter

    FarmersDaughter Notebook Consultant

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    Could someone explain to me how to dual-boot 2 Linux OS?

    I have my scheme, its a 500GB hard drive.
    Shared Swap 10GB
    Root + Home OS 1 50GB
    Root + Home OS 2 50GB
    Remaining 390GB shared between both.

    The drive currently has Windows 8 on it, so that needs to go. I got the steps down for that.

    How do I do this so that less is likely to go wrong? Commands, actions, assigning partitions. I have never done this.

    The 2 OS are Manjaro and Crunchbang. I would install Manjaro first because it has a GUI installer and that is the OS that I really want.
     
    FarmersDaughter, May 3, 2013
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  2. SuperTechie

    SuperTechie Notebook Enthusiast

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    I believe with Ubuntu or Linux Mint, you Install the first one to one partition, and then when you install the second one, and it recognizes any OS's you have installed and automatically creates grub menu entries for them. If that doesn't work, you install boot-repair, and it will scan and find all of your OS's and let you select what you do an don't want popping up in you boot menu.

    I used have five different distros installed, plus Windows. That was almost ten years ago. Each OS/distro had it's own partition, and then they all used the same home partition. I also had a partition that was formatted as fat32, so I could share files between windows and Linux. So that was 10 partitions in total. 6 Linux OS, 1 Windows OS, 1 Home directory, 1 shared directory, and 1 swap. I split them between 2 hard drives.

    Each Linux OS partition had it's own system installation and boot image, and you had to put a menu option in grub for each OS. I don't remember all the details.

    After a while, I realized Linux was Linux, and the distro didn't matter so much. I also realized I didn't need Windows anymore, so I now have a bunch of single boot Ubuntu machines. Life is simple now.
     
    SuperTechie, Jun 4, 2013
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