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How To Dual Boot Linux Mint And Windows 10
[Beginner’s Guide]
Last updated April 10, 2018 By Abhishek Prakash (https://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/)
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Brief: This guide shows you how to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows
10 and enjoy both Linux and Windows together in one system.
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Before that let me recap you a few things about installing Linux Mint. There
are a few ways you can start using any Linux based operating system.
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Dual Boot allows you to select between using Windows and Linux at boot time
Will dual booting Linux with Windows slow down your system?
I was asked this question several times in the Linux Users Group
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/822286747871993/). So, the short
answer is no. Dual booting Linux and Windows won’t slow your system in any
way.
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The only delay is in boot time that too because you get 10 seconds of bu er
time to select between Linux and Windows. Once you have booted into either
of Linux or Windows, it will work the same as if it is the only OS in the
system. No impact on the usability of your system. Dual boot won’t slow
down your system.
Back up your data: You are going to touch disk partitions. Normally, it’s
not a big issue but just in case if you touched wrong partition etc, you
may lose data. So my advice is to back up your important les,
documents, music, movies etc to an external disk or cloud, whichever
suits you.
Have a boot repair disk: If your boot gets messed up, you can try to
repair it with boot repair disk (https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-
repair-cd/). If you have an extra USB or CD, you can use that to create
boot repair disk.
Have a live or recovery disk of Windows ready: If your boot gets
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messed up and despite all e orts, you ended with an unbootable system,
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to reinstall
I am not discouraging you. I am asking you to be prepared for the worst case
scenario.
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Follow the steps below to install Linux Mint in dual boot with Windows:
Once you have downloaded the Linux Mint ISO, you need a tool to write the
image to a disk. I recommend using a free tool called Universal USB Installer
in Windows:
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It’s an executable exe le. Just double click on it to run the software and
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have your USB key plugged in:
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If you need more hints, here is a screenshot tutorial on how to create a live
USB for Linux (https://itsfoss.com/create-live-usb-of-ubuntu-in-windows/).
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free space. Typically, you install Linux in under 10 Gb, however, if disk space
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if not a concern, I advise using 30-40Gb at least. This way you can have more
space at your disposal for downloading and keeping various les.
In Windows 10, go to start menu and type ‘partition’. This will bring up Disk
Management utility. Now carefully select the disk in which you’ll make some
free space by shrinking the volume:
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In my case, I only had the C Drive with 223Gb of space on it. So I shrunk it to
make 110Gb of free partition on it. I recommend watch the video to see the
exact steps you need more hint.
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Plug the live USB or disk into the computer and restart the computer. While
booting the computer press F10 or F12 function key (defers from computer
to computer) to go to the boot menu. Now, choose the option to boot from
USB or Removable Media.
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In next few screens, you’ll be asked to choose the language of the operating
system. It will then do some checks on available space, battery and Internet
connection.
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for Linux Mint. In the Installation Type window, choose Something Else:
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Since you already created a new partition in Windows, it’s time to install
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Linux Mint on it. Now, there are several ways to do it. But here, I’ll show you
my favorite way and that is to have a Root, a Swap
(http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8208-all-about-linux-
swap-space) and a Home.
Create a root partition rst. Choose the free space available and click on +.
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Here, choose the size of the root (10 GB is enough but I chose to have 20
here), choose ext4 le system, and mount point as / (i.e. root):
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Now, next is to create the swap partition. Now the question is what should
be the swap size for Linux Mint installation?
The answer depends upon your RAM size, your needs, available disk space
and whether you would use hibernation or not. You can use the below
suggestion:
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RAM less than 2 GB: Swap should FOSS
double the size of RAM
RAM between 2 to 4 GB: Swap should be RAM size + 2 GB
RAM between 6 GB to 8 GB: Swap should be size of RAM
RAM more than 8 GB: Swap should be half the size of RAM or less
Don’t spend too much time thinking about swap. It is helpful for systems
with less memory. For system with more than 8 GB of RAM and SSD, the less
the swap, the better it is.
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The next step is to create Home. Try to allocate the maximum size to Home
because this is where you’ll be downloading and keeping the les.
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Once you have created Root, Swap and Home partitions, click on Install Now
button.
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Technically, you have crossed the main hurdle if you reached this point
successfully. Now you will be taken through a number of screens to select
options like keyboard layout, login credentials etc. You don’t need to be a
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Once the installation is over, you will be presented with the option to keep
trying live version or to restart the system.
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And that would be it. On next boot, you will see the option of Linux Mint on
the grub screen. And thus you can enjoy the beautiful and beginner-friendly
Linux distribution. I hope you found this guide to Linux Mint dual boot
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If you want to remove, you can follow this guide to uninstall Linux Mint from
Windows 8 dual boot (https://itsfoss.com/uninstall-ubuntu-linux-windows-
dual-boot/).
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