Would like to try dual booting LCOS but how?

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Have made space for it on Windows, but LCOS installer requires partitioning.

Been spoiled with distros like KDE Neon that simply replace that space.

What impressed me with a video i saw, was that LCOS sits idle at less than 500m

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You mean you made a partition on a computer that already has windows? Of did you just make unpartitioned space?

Do you know what partitions LCOS requires? That is basic … read the manual and find out.
then
You can either

  • make the partitions first with gparted, or
  • start the LCOS installer and let it make the partitions

Either way , you need to know what its partition requirements are.
Do your homework first.

An easier way is to install it in a VM … there you can give it the whole virtual disk to itself.

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Have never worked with VM before.

Could not find a manual or what LCOS requires.
But based on Devuan, it shouldn’t be that intensive.

Its forum is empty: https://forum.lunduke.com/ and did not want to register to another forum for help.

Have unpartitioned space (88G) on standy.

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How you partition it will depend on

  • how you boot … legacy or uefi
  • disk partition table … GPT or msdos
  • what LCOS needs … probably a root partition and swap

If there are no install instructions, I think you need to try it in a VM first and learn by doing an install.

That is not the only issue. You need to decide how you are going to boot it, and how you are going to get Win to boot afterwards.
Does it use grub as the bootloader?

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Good time to learn. Vbox and Virtmanager require a VM capable computer … dont try it in an old or underpowered machine.

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Devuan is an easy install. It uses the refracta installer. It is graphic
Is Lcos a live iso … boot it from a usb drive … there might be some instructions inside the live distro.

Try asking AI … it often has answers that you cant find with google

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Looks like a brand new Linux distro being still in beta.

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@easyt50
Howard, can you find him any install instructions with your AI?

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I use google for the search which in turn call Gemini AI. Here is what Gemini explain the install procedure would be directly to the PC. @danielson said he is unfamiliar using a VM. This post is going to be a bit long.

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Thanks!

Set one to /

and another (555mg) to efi/boot and we’re good to go!

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That’s easy. Just use an old computer and any Linux distro with Desktop Environment sits at that. Give a computer with 32gb of RAM and the same Linux distro takes 2GB at idle.

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Thanks Howard,
I would use dd rather than rufus or ventoy
Its advice is for a system with uefi boot and gpt partition table only … that is probably what @danielson has, because he has Win.
Dont forget to tell it to install grub.
Grub may or may not boot Win afterwards … you may need to enable os-prober in LCOS and reconfigure grub.

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Yup, Rufus made me use dd.

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