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Guided installation for dual boot
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:27 am
by ewg
I want to dual boot Vista and Mint 7, But I don't get the option to resize under guided. It just goes to the next step without offering me a resize option. It does ask if I want to boot side by side with Vista. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Re: Guided installation for dual boot
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:01 pm
by ewg
solved
Re: Guided installation for dual boot
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:06 pm
by DrHu
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=13252
--you probably picked use the entire disk, this will wipe out windows and take over the whole drive/partition for Linux
- Use guided with free space
--assumes you have some unallocated free space in some partition to install the other OS, that is Linux with windows
- Use manual mode
-- to decide on partitions and sizes and mount points, you sorta have to know what you are doing with that method
The safe method
- Boot Vista
- Defragment the C: drive
--if that is the only drive you have, because we need to create some free space
- In Vista resize the C: drive to allocate some free space for the use of Linux
- Boot the Linux mint CD
- Follow the guided partition, and use the largest free space option
--this will allow you to install Linux mint into the free space on the C: drive that you have already created (in Vista)