![]() Once the boot loader is installed it's time to reboot. Just accept the defaults because the Linux boot loader must be the first thing to load on the machine. Upon completion of the system installation it will be time to install the boot loader. ![]() Once the installation partitions the drive it will install all the files it needs. If you make this selection your Windows installation will be erased. ![]() Do NOT select anything remotely equivalent to Use Entire Disk. There should be the equivalent of using only the free space on your hard drive. Once you select Manual you will have options to select. You most likely will have to select the Manual partitioning, but don't let that scare you. What you need to do is make sure the installation uses the free space on the drive. The first section you need to pay close attention to is the partitioning of the hard drive. Once the LiveCD has finished booting click on the Install icon to begin the installation process. Most likely you will be installing from a LiveCD so boot the LiveCD up. Since there are numerous distributions I will only touch on the key aspects you need to watch for. Once the partition has been resized, it's time to load Linux. You will need to create a much larger portion of unallocated space to install Linux. In the image above I only resized the parition a small amount. Once the partition has been resized there will be unallocated space on your drive. Once you click the Shrink button your machine will go to work resizing your partition. The amount of space to shrink will be the partition your Linux installation is on, so make sure you create enough space. Once you select Shrink a new window will appear asking you how much to shrink the drive. From this new menu select the "Shrink" entry. Right click on that parition to open up a new menu. The larger partition (141.61 GB) is the partition to resize. Once you click on that you will see your machine's hard drive in all its partition'd glory. Now it's time to click on the Disk Management entry. To open up the Computer Management tool click on the start menu and then right click the Computer entry.Ĭlick on the Manage entry from this new menu to open up the Computer Management tool. Microsoft hid this tool a bit, so you have to know where it is. With Vista you are able to resize a parition, on the fly, without damaging data. One such thing is hard drive partitioning. This set up is very nice for those wanting to make the transition to Linux or want to use Linux but have Windows to play games on. Upon boot of the machine the Linux boot loader (typically Grub) allows you to select which operating system to boot. Now dual booting is exactly as you would expect: A single machine with multiple, working operating systems installed. To that end, the Linux bootloader must be used. Because the Windows boot manager is a very single-minded boot manager, it will not recognize any other operating system. ![]() I will mention that the most important issue with setting up a dual booting machine is that Windows MUST be installed first. Of course I have to make mention to back up your data! You never know when something could happen to cause you to lose precious files.īefore we go into the how to on this it is best to discuss what dual booting is and how it is possible.
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