I bought a windows laptop recently. I resized partitions in Windows. I'm old and forget details but think I probably used Disk Management. I resized partition on two drives in my laptop. Then installed Linux Mint into the spare partition on my SSD drive.
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 at 19:19, Pete Mundy <[email protected]> wrote: > > On my macOS laptop, the process was this (it will differ on Windows, but > can't be that much different): > > - download & install Virtualbox on host OS > > - download latest ISO for Ubuntu server (or Dekstop) > > - Click 'new' in Virtualbox and configure my VM's hardware (for me it was > just 1CPU & 512MB RAM for Ubuntu server, plus a 20GB fixed sized disc image > stored locally on my internal SSD) > > - Click 'start' on the new VM. I'm prompted to select an ISO image to boot > from - I the ISO I downloaded > > - Ubuntu's installer starts up, detects my virtual hard disc and start > offering me installation options > > - Follow through the Ubuntu installer, and upon reboot at the end, the > installed linux OS boots up for the first time > > > > > On 3/11/2019, at 6:50 PM, Davin Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I tried to install Oracle VM VirtualBox but there appears to be no shell > prompt so I > > am stuck with nothing to do but to try and installing from an ISO image > of Ubuntu > > burnt to a USB stick. When I googled for burning an iso image it came > up with > > a list of proprietary software that I could use to do this, but there > must be a better > > way that this! > > > > This week I will visit Global P.C's for some help with burning an ISO > image > > onto a T-Stick. Hopefully they will charge me zero dollars or a nominal > fee > > for the service. > > > > On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 20:49, Helmut Walle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Have you considered just leaving the Windows system and partitioning as > is, and setting up a > > Linux VM running on VirtualBox, for example? Depending on the kind of > diagnostics that you need > > to run, that could possibly do the job, too, but would have the > advantage of being able to run > > both OSs at the same time, rather than having to select at boot time. > > > > That approach, however, may have some limitations when connecting to > external hardware. That > > being said, USB support for VirtualBox is pretty good these days. > > > > The effort to set it up is not significantly different from changing > partitioning, installing a > > second OS, and keeping the boot loader intact. It's a really low-risk > way of spinning up another > > OS quickly. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Helmut. > > > > On 31/10/2019 03:15, Davin Pearson wrote: > > > I need to resize the primary partition on my new laptop computer's > Windows 512 GB solid-state > > > hard drive but I forget how to do it. > > > > > > Any helpful advice would be gratefully appreciated > > > > > > I intend to install a dual boot system on my laptop computer. > > > That way I can run diagnostic programs on both GNU/Linux > > > and M.S. Windows. > > -- > > Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin. > > Davin Pearson http://davin.50webs.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >
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