Triple Boot on a single 1 TB HDD

[cosmin1981]

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

[gohlip]

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.

[cosmin1981]

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

[cosmin1981]

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

[Lebarhon]

Hi,

And where do you put /home ?