Triquel dual boot installation
I have to do dual boot os trisquel with windows 10 already installed. Can someone please tell the proper methodology to do so?
I am using Dell Inspiron 5558 Laptop. I am trying to install Trisquel 8 but following issues are experienced
1. OS installed is Windows 10 and less 8GB is space available on OS(C:) drive
2. When I start installation of Trisquel OS, it does not show Windows 10 as already installed.
3. I want to install as dual bootable system with Windows 10 pre-installed, but I can not proceed further due to too many partitions.
Kindly suggest the way forward.
Regards,
Sudhir
I doubt there are on this forum many users having Windows on their disk. That said, you certainly need space to install Trisquel: make some, removing files and, defragmenting: Windows' filesystems fragment.
Also, if, for some reason, the installed operating system is not detected by Trisquel's installer, you can always manually do the job: choose "Something else" (or whatever it is called nowadays) as an "installation type".
You would then be given a tool to repartition your disk: decrease the size of some Windows' partition(s) (the tool will not let you lose files on these partitions) and create in the free space:
- a rather small (say 16 GB) partition with a filesystem (say of type ext4 for stability) to be mounted at /: it will host the GNU/Linux system,
- a swap partition of the size of your RAM (especially if you want to suspend to disk): it is an extension of the main memory (Windows calls that "virtual memory", I believe),
- and a large partition (all the remaining free space) with a filesystem (say of type XFS, for better performances with large files) to be mounted at /home: it will host the user files.
It is the most common partition scheme (the choice of the types of filesystem is that of Trisquel's installer too).