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My old instructions to dual boot windows
Notes that I made for myself years ago to dual boot Linux Mint and Windows
Warning: These are old notes that I am not maintaining or updating
Installing Windows and Linux Mint took some time the first time, these are my dual boot notes.
If you’d like to see better notes add a comment below.
Dual Boot
- Install windows from USB
- I was getting blue screen, was caused by the nvidia display, look for older drivers to fix the issue
- Manage the partitions in winows to make room for Linux
Unetbootin
- $ sudo apt-get install unetbootin extlinux
- Run unetbootin from the start menu
- Choose the image I want as downloaded from linux mint
Install Mint
I used the usb writer in Mint to create the boot usb- Use unetbootin (I had to add the package, then apt-get install)
- Download the iso from linuxmint.com
Follow the instructions on the mint website- Install and “do something else” to set up the partitions
- Create the partitions
- Click free space and click new partition table
| Name | Size | Type | Location | Use As | Mount Point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| root | 30,000B | Primary | Beginning | EXT4 | / |
| Home | Remainder - swap | Logical | Beginning | EXT4 | /home |
| Swap | 2 x RAM | Logical | Beginning | Swap area | N/a |
- The following are some old notes
Need to add a 35M (37M makes 25M) EFI partition as the first partition, if I don’t make it the installer will complain to mehttp://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=122276
I had some problems with EUFI and had to disable some options in the bios, change the boot format of the hard drive and re-install mint. Not sure which of the changes got the install to work Adding the EFI Partition allowed me to use the default bios settingsThe size of the efi boot partition: primary 37M