Dual boot with Windows and other distributions

[picodotdev]

• Dual boot with windows, other distributions
• Not delete everything, specific partitions

[IntegralWorks]

If you don't mind me asking, how do we enable the script to only install onto one partition? Is it as simple as denoting DEVICE="/dev/sdax !/dev/nvme0n1" # sata nvme (single) where x is the desired partition number?

I ask because I'd like to install the system in a way that doesn't delete other partitions.

[picodotdev]

There are two parttions necessary, the system partition and the boot partition, the system partition is created in the DEVICE variable, but a boot partition is also necessary, also are necesary changes for the boot loader to make a dual boot possible.

At the moment this script not takes in account an existing system like Windows and yet I not figured out how to make it work, take in account that Windows may requiere Secure Boot activated that this script requires to be disabled.

So currently is not possible.

[Lzok]

Hello.

How about if I am installing Arch with alis in a separate hard drive? Will that work ok?

The complete setup of my dual boot will be:

• A hard drive with Windows (my current one).
• A new hard drive to install Arch with alis.

[picodotdev]

Hi! I did not tested to install Arch Linux with dual boot with Windows, the Arch Linux wiki page is not very crear.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dual_boot_with_Windows

Anyway, alis at least can be installed without removing any existing partitions so may be is possible al least with with other Linux distributions. Using PARTITION_MODE="manual", PARTITION_CUSTOMMANUAL_BOOT and PARTITION_CUSTOMMANUAL_ROOT. Anyway as always, test this in a VirtualBox and backup all your data before proceed in real hardware.