If you discover that Windows 8 isnt quite your cup of tea, and you have no feasible path to downgrade, it may be a good idea to dual boot with Linux to have an. Linux. Its been around since the mid 90s, and has since reached a userbase that spans industries and continents. For those in the know, you understand that. LVf8Yx8l.jpg' alt='Guide To Installing Arch Linux Dual Boot' title='Guide To Installing Arch Linux Dual Boot' />This guide is intended for use by professional network and system administrators during the operation of SUSE Linux Enterprise. As such, it is solely concerned with. Make sure that youre using Arch Linux. If you have a dualboot system, you may need to switch to Arch Linux by restarting your computer, selecting Arch Linux when. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Gentoo Linux Step by Step Installation Guide with Screenshots. Same as Arch Linux, Gentoo is an Open Source meta distribution build from sources, based on Linux Kernel, embracing the same rolling release model, aimed for speed and complete customizable for different hardware architectures which compiles software sources locally for best performance using an advanced package management Portage. Gentoo Linux Installation Guide. Because the final user can choose which components are to be installed, Gentoo Linux installation is a very difficult process for unexperienced users, but this tutorial uses for simplification a pre build environment provided by a Live. DVD and a stage 3 tarball with minimal system software required to complete installation. This tutorial shows you a step by step Gentoo installation simplified single boot procedure, divided into two parts, using a 6. Stage 3 Tarball, using a GPT partition scheme and a customized Kernel image provided by Gentoo developers, so arm yourself with plenty of patience because installing Gentoo can be a long time consuming process. Step 1 Download Gentoo DVD Image and Prepare Network Configurations. Before proceeding with installation go to Gentoo Download page and grab the last released Live. DVD image. 2. After you burn the ISO image place the DVD in your system DVD drive, reboot your computer, select your bootable DVD and Gentoo prompt Live. DVD should appear on your screen. Select the first option Gentoo x. Gentoo Kernel then press Enter key to continue. Boot Gentoo Live. After Gentoo DVD content is loaded you will be prompted with Gentoo main login screen which provides the default credentials for live session. Press Enter to login then go to KDE start button and open a Terminal window. Login Screen. Open Terminal. Now its time to check your network configuration and Internet connectivity using ifconfig command and ping against a domain. If you are behind a DHCP server, your network card should be automatically configured for you else use net setup or pppoe setup and pppoe start commands or dhcpcd eth. NIC plugged cable in case your NIC has problems with automatically detect DHCP settings. For static network configurations use the following commands but replace IPs according to your network settings. Configure Network Connection. Verify Network Connection. Step 2 Create Disk Partitions and Filesystems. After you network connectivity has been established and confirmed its time to prepare Hard Disk. The following GPT partition layout will be used, but the same partition scheme can be also applied on a MBR BIOS disk using fdisk utility. M size unformatted BIOS boot partition. M size ext. 2 filesystem Boot partition. M size Swap Swap partition. Root Partition. To create system disk partition switch to root account and run Parted utility with optimum alignment. Create Disk Partitions. After entering parted CLI interface set GPT label on your hard disk. Use print to show your disk partition current state and remove any partitions if case using rm partition number command. Then supply parted with MB or mib size unit, create the first partition with mkpart primary, give it a name and set the boot flag on this partition. MB. Check Disk Partition. The way that Parted deals with partition sizes is to tell it to start from 1. MB the desired value size in this case start a 1 MB and end at 2. MB which results in a 1. MB partition size. Then create all the partitions using the same method as above. Boot Partitionparted mkpart primary 2. Swap Partitionparted mkpart primary 5. Ati Radeon 7500 Tv Software more. Root Partitionparted mkpart primary 1. As you can see Root partition uses 1 as maximum value which means that its using all the remaining space 1 MB at the end of disk space. After you complete with disk slices use print to see your final partition layout should look like in the image below and quit parted. Final Partition Layout. Now its time to format partitions using a specific Linux filesystem, activate Swap file and mount Root and Boot partitions to mntgentoo path. Format Partitions. Mount Partitions. Step 3 Download and extract Gentoo Stage 3 Tarball. Before downloading Gentoo Stage 3 Tarball check your system time and date using date command and, in case, theres a huge time desynchronization use the following syntax to synchronize time. MMDDhhmm. YYYY Month, Day, hour, minute and Year1. Now its time to download Gentoo Stage 3 Tarball. Proceed to mntgentoo path and use links command to navigate to Gentoo Mirror list and select your Country nearest mirrors releases amd. Gentoo Mirror List. Select Nearest Mirror. Select Your Architecture. Select Current Gentoo ISODownload Gentoo Stage 3 Tarball. After selecting the Tarball press Enter key, select OK, wait for the download to finish and quit links. Save Gentoo Stage 3 Tarball. Downloading Gentoo Stage 3 Tarball. Exit links Window. On the next step, extract Stage 3 Tarball archive using the following command. Stage 3 Tarball File. Extract Stage 3 Tarball. Now you have a minimal Gentoo environment installed on your computer but the installation process is far from being finished. To continue the installation process follow Install Gentoo Linux Part 2 tutorial. Beginners Guide To Install Windows 1. With Ubuntu in Dual Boot. Brief This detailed article shows you how to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 1. Previously I had written about dual booting Ubuntu Linux with Windows 7 and 8, but those tutorials did not cover systems that come with Windows 1. The newer systems that come with Windows 8 or Windows 8. UEFI instead of BIOS. This makes thing a little different from the conventional way of dual booting. In this tutorial, we shall see how to install Ubuntu with Windows 1. This tutorial is performed on a newly bought Dell Inspiron 7. Core i. 7 fourth generation processor, 2. GB SSD, 8 GB RAM and built in 1 GB Intel graphics. Ill cover all the steps you need to do in order to successfully dual boot Linux with Windows 1. UEFI. If you have already done some of these steps, just skip to the next one. If you have a fresh system, even better. The steps mentioned here are applicable to other Ubuntu based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, Elementary OS etc. Cutting the chit chat, lets see how to dual boot Linux on a UEFI secure boot enabled Windows 1. Though I have used Ubuntu 1. Ubuntu, be it Ubuntu 1. Ubuntu 1. 6. 0. 4. There are various prerequisites to install Ubuntu on a UEFI system. Ill list them for easier read here Ubuntu ISO burned to a USB or DVD well see itWindows backup optionalWindows 1. USB optional yet recommended as it will save your day if anything goes wrongLets see the steps of installing Ubuntu along side Windows 1. Step 1 Make a backup optionalIt is always nice to make a back up, just in case if you mess up with the system. There are numerous articles on the web to show you how to backup your system. You can follow this tutorial here. Step 2 Create a live USBdisk of Ubuntu. The next thing you need to do is to create a live USB or disk. I recommend Universal USB Installer to create a live USB of Linux OS in Windows. Step 3 Make a partition where Ubuntu will be installed. Assuming tat you have a fresh system, the first thing we need to do is to make a partition to install Linux. The 2. GB in my system was already had several partitions from manufacturer but mainly for backup and other purposes. Main partition was C drive, of around 2. GB, where Windows 8. If you have just one partition like this, you need to make some free space out of it for Linux. If you have several partitions of considerable size, use any of them except C drive because it may erase the data. To make a partition in Windows 8, go to Disk Management tool. You can find disk management tool by searching for disk in Control Panel. In the Disk Management tool, right click on the drive which you want to partition and select shrink volume. In my case, I shrank the C drive to make some free space You can leave the free space as it is. We shall use it while installing Ubuntu. Step 4 Disable fast startup in Windows optionalWindows 8 introduced a new feature called fast startup for quick boot. While it is not mandatory, it would be better to have it disabled. Go to Control Panel Hardware and Sound Power Options System Settings Choose what the power buttons do and uncheck the Turn on fast startup box. If you need more hints, follow this screenshot tutorial to disable fast startup in Windows. Step 5 Disable secureboot in Windows 1. This is the most important step. The new secure boot feature of Windows 8, originally intended for security feature for rootkit viruses, prevents dual booting of Windows with Linux. To dual boot Windows 8 with Linux, we must disable secure boot in UEFI. Step 6 Installing Ubuntu along with Windows 1. Once you have disabled secure boot, its time to install Ubuntu. I hope you already created the live USB as mentioned in step 2. Plug in the USB and boot the system from it. To boot from USB, will have to choose boot from USB option from within Windows itself. Either with PC Setting like for UEFI or pressing shift key while clicking on Restart. Once you have booted in the live USB, you will be presented with option to try or install Ubuntu. Click on install. You will be presented with few screen options to choose the language. It will then do some checks on available space, power and internet connection etc. Just click on Continue. The main screen which you should pay attention to is Installation Type. Choose Something else here Remember we had created some free space beforehand We shall use the free space to create Root, Swap and Home. Select the free space and click on the sign. It will provide you with option to create Linux partition. We are creating the Root partition. Any thing between 1. GB is more than sufficient for it. Choose the size, select Ext 4 as file type and means root as the mount point. Clicking on OK in previous step will bring you to the partition screen. Next we will create swap. Like previously, click on the sign again. This time use the file type as Swap area. Suggestible swap size is double of RAM. In similar fashion, create a Home partition. Allocate it maximum space in fact allocate it rest of the free space because this is where youll save music, pictures and downloaded files. Once you are ready with Root, Swap and Home, click on Install Now Well, you have almost won the battle. You can smell victory now. Next you will be asked to set username password etc. Basically, you just need to click next now. Once the installation is completed, restart the computer, you should be welcomed by a purple grub screen. Enjoy Ubuntu along with Windows 1. Note If after installing Ubuntu, you boot directly in Windows, check in UEFI settings for changing the boot order. If you see no option to set the boot to Ubuntu, you need to fix it from within Windows. When you are in Windows desktop, hover the mouse in left corner, right click and select administrators command prompt. Then run the following command bcdedit set bootmgr path EFIubuntugrubx. This should make the Grub default and hence you can access both Ubuntu and Windows from it. I hope this guide helped you to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 1. UEFI. If you want to reverse the process, follow this guide to remove Ubuntu from dual boot with Windows. Though this article is written for Ubuntu, it should be helpful for other Linux OS as well. Any questions or suggestions are always welcomed.