Timeline for Should I create a /home partition while installing Mint alongside Windows XP?
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| Oct 14, 2016 at 1:28 | vote | accept | joaouzae | ||
| Oct 13, 2016 at 23:20 | comment | added | SonicARG | Yes, Ubuntu is bundled with GRUB bootloader, which will let you choose which OS to boot. GRUB is very customizable, but doing at hand can be very confusing and error prone; you can use (while running your local Ubuntu) Grub customizer to rearrange your menu, modify the timeout to boot the default OS, and some other neat things ;) I usually have Windows first, then Ubuntu, then the recovery options; and, if I don't touch any key, boot Windows after 30s. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 18:42 | comment | added | joaouzae | But what do I do about the bootloader? I saw here that if I choose the default location to install it, linux will ask me at boot time which operating system to boot (which is what I want). Do you know if that is True? | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 3:09 | comment | added | SonicARG | Yep, put everything in / directory, don't split the hierarchy on the installer. Then, having the installed system running, use ln -s to create the symlinks (don't forget the -s switch, otherwise you'll have your files copied, not symlinked). On Windows, the equivalent tool is mklink (use /d switch if you're pointing to a folder, mklink always creates symlinks) | |
| Oct 11, 2016 at 19:11 | comment | added | joaouzae | So I'd only create the root and the swap partition, and if the installer asks where I wanna put/install /home, I select /, is that right? | |
| Oct 11, 2016 at 1:46 | history | answered | SonicARG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |