I'm going to be dual booting W7 and Mint. I have 2 ssds, one with W7 and the other will be Mint. The 2nd drive is 250gb. So the / drive will be 30gb the /swap will be 32gb as i have 16gb of ram. and the /home will be 188gb? And which of these partitions do I install mint onto? Thanks
If you have 16GB of RAM, you probably don't need a SWAP. I only got 8GB RAM and I don't use SWAP on my SSD. No problems whatsoever.
Infected, I just did the exercise. Windows on HD0 (SSD). HD1 (SSD) is empty, no partitions. Boot your Mint UFD or DVD. For Installation type, choose "Something else". Select the Free Space on /dev/sdb and click Change. Use as Ext4, Format box ticked, Mount point / For "Device for boot loader installation" choose /dev/sdb Installation takes a few minutes. You can boot Mint from the BIOS Boot Menu.
That would be an easy config. But, then don't you give up LUKS and LVM, or do you simply use them on just one partition?
Palancar, I'm just trying to make it as simple as possible for Infected's first Linux install. Other configurations can be tried later.
The easier way is to do this in a Mint Terminal... timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 Now both OS will show Local Time.
After doing what Brian explained, you'll need to readjust the BIOS time a last time upon next reboot. But after that, it'll stay ok.
I do have a question. When I try to run system updates, i get this error. Code: W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chrome.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chrome.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chrome.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chrome.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3
Another question. I'm running a dual linux boot. How can I remove one, then boot straight into the one that I want to keep?
As Brian said, but look carefully at "If grub was installed to the partition" which is not always the case since grub installs usually into MBR so NEVER format the linux partition thinking you're going to get rid of it, it will only cause LOTS of trouble and will be having to deal with a Windows partition to restore Windows bootloader.
I tried this today with Legacy BIOS set. Not UEFI. Mint was installed and then Ubuntu was installed with the boot loaders in their respective partitions. (only two partitions on the disk) Ubuntu wasn't automatically added to the boot menu but this was fixed in Mint with... sudo update-grub The Mint partition was then deleted. Ubuntu didn't boot. A flashing cursor was seen without a boot menu. This was fixed with the "boot-disk-repair" flash drive. https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/ Note, this UFD had to be booted in UEFI mode with Secure Boot disabled. Even though the OS was installed in Legacy mode.
@Brian K I ended up deleting Windows and now I just have Mint. But the grub boot menu is there on startup. Is there a way to bypass this or reduce the countdown timer?
Panagiotis has a good fix. Do you understand the method? https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/linux-windows-dual-boot.400267/page-2#post-2747380