• randomTingler@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are you going to unplug the existing harddisk? If your Linux /efi partition is written in the windows boot partition, you are kind of messed up.

    Better unplug the existing harddisk and try Linux, once you are comfortable you can switch to dual boot then completely swith over to Linux.

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      1 year ago

      I have dual booted Linux and Windows many times and never had a problem. I just boot my old Windows install through grub. The Ubuntu installer asks you if you want to do this and sets it all up for you.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen tutorials where people installed Linux using a virtual machine that can only see the ISO usb and the drive you are installing Linux on to do that. It’ll be a pain removing the drives from my laptop. I probably won’t be dual booting because I use nvidia GPUs + can’t switch to Linux full time because nvidia and I use CUDA for projects.

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          So I think I got it to work. Used a virtual machine to install it onto the drive, and now my laptop boots to Ubuntu when the drive is plugged in. Took a while for me to figure out which partition sizes I needed for stuff since I wanted to do manual partitioning.