A Beginner's Guide to Dual Booting Linux Mint and Windows XP LG #1. By Shane Lazar. This article is a first for me. I wrote it for a friend of mine who is interested. Operating System (OS) that I have a habit of promoting - you. Linux. But he is unsure how to go about it and is. So you got your shiny new pre-installed Windows 7 computer over the holidays, but you want to have trusty XP standing by in a dual boot setup. Today we’ll walk. How to set up dual-boot configurations for Debian Linux with Windows using Grub and how to remove Linux and uninstall a dual-boot configuration. Worried Windows 10 will crash your PC? Here’s how to dual-boot with your existing Windows install. Windows - yet. And I understand him: moving to a new. OS can be unnerving and would be easier if it was done in phases. I promised I would. Your expert guide to today's tech. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+; The Fitbit Blaze is the company’s latest tracker and is certainly its.
I decided that writing an article would. In this spirit, I am going to show how to go about this by. This. is a rather new distribution that is based on the very famous Ubuntu Linux distribution. Linux. Mint is, in my opinion, easier for new users - since most of the bells and whistles. And. in its latest incarnation, Linux Mint 2. Bianca, things just got a lot better! First, you will have to download the install CD image (Linux. Mint- 2. 2. iso); it's. MB, so it will take some time. Once you have it, you can verify it by. Then, you will need to burn this image file. CD. This does not mean just adding the Linux. Mint- 2. 2. iso file and. CD. Here and here are two websites that explain how to do this in Windows. I. recommend that you burn the CD at the slowest speed possible to avoid errors. Once. you are done, there should be two folders on the CD named casper and. However, better safe than sorry - so, I would recommend you. I am just avoiding any possible lawsuits. Mint needs an absolute minimum of 3. GB, but I would strongly recommend at least. GB - with hard drives as huge as they are today, there's no excuse for cramping. Make sure to run Disk Defragmenter and. Now, I am not sure how it works in Windows - . I used it - but you probably should not use your. Linux avoids this whole problem by not. Clever, huh? Once you. Linux Mint! Put your newly- created Linux Mint CD into the CD/DVD drive and reboot; you may. BIOS to boot from CD before the hard disk. On booting from the CD, the. Just hit Enter, sit back, and watch the pretty boot splash as Linux Mint. When everything is loaded, you'll be greeted by a very attractive desktop. Have a look. Linux Mint is a Live CD. This means that it boots into a functional OS that runs. CD. And while in this state you can use it without making any. The disadvantage is that you cannot make permanent changes. So you can play. around with it as a Live CD if you are just trying to see what Linux Mint is all. But we're not here to play around, we're here to dig into the real stuff! See. the Linux Mint icon on the desktop labeled Install? Double click it and. Now, the installation dialog pops up. The first thing I noticed is where it says. Step 1 of 6' on the bottom left. Is that how easy installing Linux has. You bet it is! If we were not going for a dual boot setup, any sort. But don't worry - setting up the dual boot isn't. Back on track - the first screen is self- explanatory. Choose the language you want. Forward. The second step is just as easy as the first: simply choose your time zone from the. Optionally, you may click on your region in the world map, and the map will zoom. Then click Forward again. Now, it's time choose your keyboard layout. You can test your keys in the field below the lists. I have demonstrated). This is so easy.. Remind me again, why does this need a guide? Who are you? No, we don't want a philosophical rant.. Enter your password twice, and a name for your machine. The account. created here will be the administrator account with full control of the OS. I will talk about user. Forward.. Guess what: we've reached the 'hard' part - disk partitioning. We don't want to erase the entire. We're going to do this manually! Forward. This opens the partition editor application. It will scan all your hard disks and display the. If you have more that one physical hard drive, then you. Your master drive is usually. The slave will be hdb or sdb. And the. partitions are numbered as hda. If you are attentive, you will notice that my hard disk is divided into three partitions - . Ubuntu Linux. and hda. I use to play around with other Linux distributions. I. am not about to delete my Ubuntu partition just so I can show you how to resize an NTFS partition. If you are thinking in terms of C: \, D: \, E: \, etc. I suggest going by the size of the partitions and the free space. Right- click on the. Resize/Move. The following dialog will pop up: There are a number of ways you can define how you want to resize your partition. For 5. GB, you. would enter 5. I have less than 5. I am the teacher. I am allowed to cheat! Actually, I am not. The partition editor will not make. Apply. button. So for now, click Resize. As you can now see, the NTFS partition has been reduced and there is now some. This is where Mint is going to live. Make sure you have a backup of all. If you know that the system may hang or is unstable, don't do it or try to use. A hard disk can have a maximum of four primary partitions. If your. partitions are named hda. So, if you. have one or two primary partitions, you can create primary. Every Linux installation needs a swap partition; it is the equivalent of the. Windows paging file. Think of it as an extension of your computer's RAM. The general. rule is that the size of your swap partition should be the amount of RAM on your. However, nowadays with the size of RAM getting very large. I would consider 5. MB as a maximum for. Linux Mint recommends a minimum of 2. MB. Click on the unallocated space. New button at the top left to create a new partition. Simply type the amount of swap space that you want in the 'New Size (Mi. B)' field. This much has. I don't need another swap. Ubuntu and Mint can both use the one I already have. The space for the. I took out of the 5. GB earlier when I 'cheated'. Then choose if. it is going to be a primary partition or an extended partition. Click Add. Now we will create the partition where we are going to install the actual OS. Click on the. remaining unallocated space and then click on the New button at the top left. Make sure this partition fills the entire unallocated space - the 'Free Space Preceding' and the. Free Space Following' fields should both be 0 (zero). Again select primary or. Linux Mint defaults to ext. I prefer reiserfs. Take your pick. After all. Linux is all about - freedom and choice! There's no turning. Take a deep breath and click Apply. Oops, wait.. Click Close. Finally, we reach the end of our lengthy step 5 - partition mount points. Verify that the. partition you created for Linux Mint is mounted at /, the swap partition as swap. I am. not sure if the NTFS partitions are mounted here by default, since I deleted my NTFS partition. Also check that the /. That's it - . bravo, you are done with partitioning! Click Forward. Here we are, at the final step! Actually, this is more of a summary of what the. The only option here is choosing the location of GRUB, the boot. Don't. change anything here; most likely, it will work just fine as is. Now, bravely click. Install. The installation will take about 2. I fixed myself a midnight snack - eggs and. No, its not what Linux people eat.. It's what lazy people eat. At. least nobody is going to bother me today! And now, we have reached the end of our journey.. Just out of curiosity, I actually timed this install. Of course. this is not the first time for me, but I did do it at a leisurely pace - plus I took some of the screenshots. From booting with the CD to rebooting took me just under 5. Not. bad for the so- called 'complicated', 'only- for- geeks' OS. And on top of that, everything worked fine - . Flash. Even this article, including all the image. Linux Mint! If you discover that you need more help with this distro, go over to the Linux Mint forum and the. Meanwhile, go ahead and give that Restart Now button a good whack - and enjoy! He has been a ardent user of FOSS and Linux since 2. He spends a sizeable amount of time on Linux forums learning about it and helping others where he can. Currently his favorite distro is Ubuntu, while he has used Mandrake/Mandriva in the past on his desktop and still does for his home network server. Released under the Open Publication License. Linux Gazette is not. Dual Boot Your Pre- Installed Windows 7 Computer with XPSo you got your shiny new pre- installed Windows 7 computer over the holidays, but you want to have trusty XP standing by in a dual boot setup. Today we’ll walk through creating a new partition in Windows 7 then installing XP on it. In this process we are going to shrink some free space on the Windows 7 hard drive to allocate toward a new partition. Make sure to take a moment and decide how much space to use for the XP partition. Make sure you have enough space on your hard drive for files you’ll be adding to each. Create a New Partition. The first thing we need to do is create a new partition on the Windows 7 machine. Luckily we can do it without any 3rd party software. To begin, click on Start and type either partition or disk management into the search box and at the top of the menu click on Create and format hard disk partitions. The Disk Management window opens, and from here we need to free up space on the (C: ) drive Windows 7 is installed on. Right- click on the drive and select Shrink Volume. Now enter the amount of space you want to shrink the volume. You’re shown the total size of the disk and the amount of size that is available to shrink. In this example we’re freeing up 4. GB of space. After the process completes you’ll see the new Unallocated space. Right- click that and select New Simple Volume. The New Simple Volume Wizard launches which is a straight forward process. When you get to the Format Partition section, NTFS is selected by default as the file system and you can leave that as is. You might want to rename the Volume label something else like “XP Partition” so it’s easier to identify when installing XP. Also you’ll probably want to make sure to check Perform a Quick Format. After the format is complete you will see the new volume as a healthy partition listed. Now when you go into My Computer you’ll see the the new disk and notice that space has been taken away from the (C: ) drive Windows 7 is installed on. Install XP on the New Partition. Now that you know how to create a new partition on your Windows 7 machine, it’s time to install XP on it. Here we’re installing XP Professional on the new partition. Boot from the XP installation disk and start the install process. When it comes to choosing a partition, make sure you select the one you created using the steps above. In this example we made a 1. GB partition for the XP install. If the partition you created was already formatted as NTFS you can leave it, or you can choose the FAT file system if you want. Create Boot Loader. Once installation of XP is successful you can now go through and install the latest Microsoft Updates and drivers. You will undoubtedly notice that the machine is booting directly into XP at this time. This is due to XP writing it’s bootloader over Windows 7’s. To get both XP and Windows 7 as an option at the boot screen you can use the free utility Easy. BCD 1. 7. 2 or their new 2. Beta. Vista. Boot. PRO 3. 3 (free version) will still work too which you can download here. Vista. Boot. PRO is now called Dual. Boot. PRO and is no longer free, it’s $9. After getting the bootloader back you should see both XP and Windows 7 as options in the Windows Boot Manager. Conclusion. If you want to set a default OS on your dual boot system, check out The Geek’s tutorial on how to set it up. To download the Easy. BCD 2. 0 Beta, you’ll need to register with the Neo. Smart Technologies Forum first. If you’re hesitant to try out Beta software, Easy. BCD 1. 7. 2 is also free and will still work as well. Easy. BCD 2. 0 Beta (Forum Registration Required).
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