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Hello people

i am glad to beh ere...

I have a laptop called ASUS TP301UJ, with i5, 6 ddram and 1 TB hdd storage. I shrunk windows, so now i have 240 GB unused, so each linux has 120 GB.

for now, i just have windows 10 home 64 bits installed (with license, its OEM), but i want to have mint and mageia on the go with me.

using only MANUAL partitioning and installation...how do you suggest i install the other 2 OSes? in which order?

i was thinking of installing Linux Mint 17.3 first (18.2 wont boot on my laptop...dunno why), then mageia 6.

Here is how i was planning on installing each of the 2 linuxes, ow i was thinking of manually configuring partitions:

/efi partition - 600 MB
/boot, type ext 4 - 600 MB
/swap - 4 GB (dont reckon i d need more, i only do words, light linux learning etc)
/ - root, type ext4 as 116 GB
(so as the total GBs used per each linux is close to 120 GB)


Is this ok?
will the 3 OSes boot together happily?
If i am wrong...how to manually partition and install them?

Thanks

The order to install does not matter, just that the last installed linux OS will be the default bootloader and which can be easily changed with a simple command 'efibootmgr -o xxxx,yyyy,zzzz' in any linux OS. Just be very sure that windows is already in uefi/gpt by windows command 'msinfo32'. And do not format that $esp while installing any linux OS. Personally, I do not see a need for a boot partition, but that's entirely your choice. It's always good to get your partitions ready before installing anything.

Yes, they will boot happily together; just that sometimes a major windows update can override/erase linux bootloaders, which can be restored through booting a livecd or we can isolate it by having a separate $esp partition from windows $esp, which is not commonly done.

Good luck.

ps: don't worry too much, we're all here.

hello and thanks for the answer

For my peace of mind - in the event some windows update messed up the linux bootloaders...how exactly would i use the live cd to restore them?

Some links to tutorials etc?

Many thanks

And how precisely do i use the live boot to restore linux boot loaders?

Hi,

And where do you put /home ?