Re: [orca-list] Installing linux with windows 10

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

In a couple of decades at my job, I've set up literally hundreds of dual 
boot machines and I've never had any trouble. My advice is to just let 
Ubuntu handle the repartitioning. I think that unless you really know 
what you are doing, you are more likely to mess it up than if you just 
let the Ubuntu installer handle it.

I cannot say that problems do not occur. But as far as I know, a Windows 
update has never damaged the MBR in my experience and, as I said, I am 
talking about hundreds of machines over two decades. I do not recall 
ever having trouble booting into Windows after the Ubuntu installation 
either.  I would be careful not to accidently power down the machine 
during the install but otherwise, I believe it's pretty safe.

Maybe I've just been lucky. Who knows?

On 1/30/21 10:04 AM, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> I think that this can happen if booting in Legacy mode with a MBR, less 
> so if
> booting in EFI mode with a GPT as then the OS loaders of GRUB and 
> Windows are
> two different files which won't erase each other. This is why the Slint
> installer in 'auto' mode will allow to install Slint on the same drive as
> Windows only if the machine booted in EFI mode and the drive has a GPT.
>
> Didier
>
> Le 30/01/2021 à 16:34, Milton a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just to mention an experience in the past with a dual boot 
> > installation: it could happen that after an update of Windows the grub 
> > is damaged. So then there will be a problem to start Windows or Ubuntu.
> >
> > Milton
> >
> > Op 30-01-2021 om 16:24 schreef Didier Spaier via orca-list:
> > > PS In any case, be careful not to shrink too much the Windows system 
> > > volume:
> > > keep at least 32G above the minimum size as a Windows update can need 
> > > that
> > > amount of space to be applied (thanks Jean-Pierre André, developer of 
> > > ntfs-3G,
> > > for this information)
> > >
> > > Didier
> > >
> > > Le 30/01/2021 à 15:19, Didier Spaier via orca-list a écrit :
> > > > Hello Daniel,
> > > >
> > > > My advice is to shrink the partition (or volume, in Windows 
> > > > parlance) from
> > > > Windows itself before installing Ubuntu. Hopefully the Ubuntu 
> > > > installer should
> > > > the be able to find the space you will have freed and install Ubuntu 
> > > > there.
> > > > You will have to check as I don't use Ubuntu.
> > > >
> > > > I have written instructions here for Slint (but this should work for 
> > > > any
> > > > distribution as the commands are to be typed in Windows):
> > > > http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/doc/New_Installer/Doc_in_the_installer/FreeSpace 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Didier
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Le 30/01/2021 à 14:33, Daniel McGee via orca-list a écrit :
> > > > > So after playing around with various distros, I have decided to go 
> > > > > with ubuntu mate. However, I also still want to keep windows 10 so 
> > > > > I can duel boot.
> > > > >
> > > > > The question I have though is. When I boot up to the ubuntu mate 
> > > > > installer and tell it to install along side windows, will it take 
> > > > > care of the Partitioning itself? Manually splitting the two drives 
> > > > > is what's putting me off. As I don't want to mess my win10 setup up.
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