I do this all the time but you can only have three primary partitions and one extended partition to house the logical partitions.
Linux will install to a logical partition but Windows will only install to a primary partition and Windows needs the first partition on the disk.
No they dont. It is up to you to choose what you want. There is no default.
It is not really a property of Linux… Linux will run on just about any partitioning, as
long as you mount a root partition.
Grub has certain requirements for partitioning.
What you need as a minimum, for grub, depends on whether it is legacy boot or UEFI boot, and also depends on whether the partition table is GPT or msdos.
Understood.
I think, I might have found THE ONE distro. Let’s see.
Good luck with Linux replacing Windows and the software Windows run!!!
My best advice is “heed the two disk warning” one for Windows and one for Linux! Does not really matter which distro, they are all about the same.
Setup Windows first unplug the drive and install Linux on the other drive, install grub to that drive, shutdown the PC and plug the Windows drive in, power up the PC and enter bios and set the Linux drive to boot first, update grub and make sure os-prober is installed, and it should find Windows.
No, there isn’t. Nor is there a need for that, but…
I thought here I write you how to steal / borrow it from Mint, as I did such nasty things. I always liked Mints pendrive formatter, image writer, so I borrowed it from Mint since I entered Debian with the Buster version (it’s the mintstick package).
(Debian 12 has this natively in its own repo, so no more need to “borrow” it )
But…
You can borrow (mostly) any package safely from the LMDE repository
The package “mintdrivers” is not present there, so maybe you could steal it from the Virginia repos, but personally I would not do it.
After all, what for would you use it?
I know. This is my first and only one life, and half of it is already over
Yes, Windows tries to be dead simple, and it does this well. The price of being dead simple is thait has to hide the inner working of the computer from people as much as possible, and people seemingly tend to like this, but that also means sysadmin-like tasks of peoples computers are “outsourced” to MS, thus giving them (to Microsoft) the full control on how the computer is maintained, operated.
OS prober is installed by default in Debian, however it is recently disabled by default. So it has to be enabled to find Windows (and any other OS).
Edit:
Bonus link:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1998854&sid=39d99439b8dd85733d46dcc5624c9d0d#p1998854
OK, but does @Skywalker71 know how too enabled os-prober?
Probably not (yet). He is going to learn it.
I broke something in Debian 12. After installing from live usb (ventoy) it didn’t recognise the wifi adapter. Despite of that I tried to install Nvidia driver which I downloaded and at some point it asked for install compatibility and the ‘NO’ option was selected and I pressed enter. After rebooting it shows the BSOD (black screen of death… to me obviously) and I formatted the partition and reinstalled Debian 12 from the DVD. Now it installed but again, it did not recognise the wifi adapter. Searching the net, I found a ‘solution’ which mentioned to delete the content of /etc/network/interfaces, save then reboot. I did that and after reboot, it is now showing 'error: attempt to read or write outside of disk ‘hd0’. I don’t know what to do and why my wifi adapter was not recognised in the first place. Please help.
Note: The adapter is a bluetooth+wifi combo. Debian is recognising the bluetooth, but not the wifi.
Debian 12 live USB also not recognising the adapter and not even phone tethering.
You need to decide between
- Linux does not detect the hardware for Wifi
- Drivers for the Wifi are not loaded
- Networking is not configured correctly
I doubt about the wifi driver. Its a very painful process to install the drivers. I once tried using a dongle 2.4ghz and it took almost 2hrs for me to make it work on kali based on debian. And the spped was 5mbps while my int speed is 100mbps…so removed it. I think it was a realtek dongle. If urs is tplink, i dont think they provide linux drivers.
I have a tplink wifi dongle that works in Debian and Gentoo … without having to install any driver… but I did need to configure the networking
Mint and Fedora recognise both the Wi-Fi adapter and the phone tethering. Why not Debian?!
The question is, why is it not loaded?! And if not loaded, how can I solve that?
Please guide me on how to do this in Linux.
No. It is Realtek.
What do you see with
ip a
in Debian?
Please post it here in a code box so I can interpret it
Ohh ok! I actually looked for some 2 or 3 dongles and they mentioned that they have only windows drivers.
Sorry for the wrong info…
Command:
ip a
Result:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp3s0: <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 74:d4:35:9a:5b:93 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f
The adapter is a Realtek 8821CU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB NIC. Not a TP-LINK but a normal one.
I just do that from the very first day I start experimenting with Linux. But I don’t physically unplug the drives, instead I ‘Power Down’ all other drives except the Linux drive as my motherboard has this option. After installation, I change all the drives’ status to ‘ENABLED’ in the BIOS and hit the F12 key on my keyboard at the time of reboot to bring up the BIOS ‘Drive Selection’ menu and I select the drive in which I want to boot. Very simple and no chance of messing up the Bootloader.
I see you try to search, and find a solution for yourself before posting a question.
You are on the right track!
This seems to be GRUB error, and I’m quite confident it has nothing to do with /etc/network/interfaces.
With that deletion possibly you could ruin network config, but definitely not the system boot.
The vendor (TP-Link, Asus, whatever) does not really matter, but the chip really used in the product.
I think you need to install the firmware-realtek package, possibly from the backports repo.
How you can do this, depends on wether you can have an alternative network connection (wired?), or just download that package and install it manually.
So can you have an alternative network connection?