partitioning for Mageia installation

[doktor5000]

Hey,
I am new to mageia and want to dualboot mageia 8 with windows 7. PC has 2gb ram and total 300 gb hdd (90gb windows C and 210 free space on Volume D) on a MBR partition.

Shrinking D drive and got 120 gb unallocated free space

Now on the mageia installation page, under partition do i just go with Use free space or do customized partiton?

Thanks in advance

[filip]

Hi adnan. Welcome.

For the first time I would recommend "Use free space".
For those more experienced in Linux partitions the "customized partitoning" is more flexible.

Note that in need you can change partitioning latter anyway if you're experienced.

[doktor5000]

Just for reference, you would not have needed to shrink the second partition, the installer would do that for you if you choose that.
You may want to look at https://doc.mageia.org/installer/8/en/c ... oning.html for some more details on the partitioning options.

[adnan]

Hi adnan. Welcome.

For the first time I would recommend "Use free space".
For those more experienced in Linux partitions the "customized partitoning" is more flexible.

Note that in need you can change partitioning latter anyway if you're experienced.

hey, i tried with use free space but the installer crashed out of nowhere. Had to do customized partitioning to get it right.

Just for reference, you would not have needed to shrink the second partition, the installer would do that for you if you choose that.
You may want to look at https://doc.mageia.org/installer/8/en/c ... oning.html for some more details on the partitioning options.

thanks

[doktor5000]

To use the free space or shrink the windows partition, usually those should be in a proper state. Sometimes such partitions might need a chkdsk run before something like that can succeed.

[mirej]

Other solution. A more difficult way, but if someone has Windows7.
You can add (extended) 3 partitions under windows7. No formatting (Format when installing Mageia8 from DVD.)
Or
With Paragon Manager you can add Linux partitions+format from Windows7.
For example: First partition 50GB Mageia8 (ext3), Second 4GB swap, Third 65GB home (ext3).
During installation, you must select the appropriate partitions. Mageia 8; swap; home

[doktor5000]

You can do the same (create additional empty partitions) with any windows version, because they come with diskpart by default, and you don't need any external tools. But why make it more difficult then it needs to be ?