Hodevah
November 24th, 2015, 03:06 AM
Hello.
I have been both researching and thinking of installing Windows on a multi-boot Linux system. Some of my research throughout the Internet that I have gathered has taken me to this thread here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/129058/how-to-install-windows-7-after-ubuntu-and-dual-boot
I would like to gather some additional information. For one thing, that particular post is about 2 years old. Knowing that technology changes each year as equally as does methodologies for doing what I have in mind, I would like to know from others who have installed Windows sometime after they had installed a Linux/GNU system. Either multi or solo GNU system.
Here is my lsblk output:
sudo lsblk -a
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 460.1G 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 231.8G 0 part /
├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 231.8G 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 7.8G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 29.8G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 29.8G 0 part
or
sudo lsblk -fl
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
sda1 ext4 Antergos b8e55e95-d5d9-422d-bd92-8506516d04a1
sda2 ext4 Kubuntu f211db28-021e-4475-baa2-db2d92d862dc /
sda3
sda4 ext4 Fedora22 6e661348-80f5-4041-b05a-1031c995e37a
sda5 swap 49e89d3d-6164-4957-a3be-f306674da2d3 [SWAP]
sdb
sdb1 ntfs 72FC5A6909409415
and
sudo lsblk -S
NAME HCTL TYPE VENDOR MODEL REV TRAN
sda 0:0:0:0 disk ATA WDC WD10SPCX-75H 1A01 sata
sdb 1:0:0:0 disk ATA LITEONIT LMS-32L 10E sata
For interest's sake, I have a graphical output of the above lsblk output:
265742
If there are no other safe methodologies available (other than the one from above link) then my plan is to shrink the Arch based system (since it handles/manages Grub) anywhere from 50-100 GB with Live Gparted .iso (all partitions unmounted at that time)
Format from /dev/sda1 about 50-100 GB NTFS and then install Windows;
Use Rescatux to regain Grub and update Grub there after of all OS.
Much like it would say in the link I provided earlier; however, I would still like to gather other's experiences, support, and ideas of this.
Will Windows (7,8, or 10), after install, be stubborn and prevent me in some way that I may not be aware of at the moment, to re-install Grub using above name method?
Additional information:
It is an UEFI system. However, I have not a separate /boot/efi partition.
The Arch system, managing all OS on this system, has Grub in it's /boot partition.
thank you in advance for your responses.
I have been both researching and thinking of installing Windows on a multi-boot Linux system. Some of my research throughout the Internet that I have gathered has taken me to this thread here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/129058/how-to-install-windows-7-after-ubuntu-and-dual-boot
I would like to gather some additional information. For one thing, that particular post is about 2 years old. Knowing that technology changes each year as equally as does methodologies for doing what I have in mind, I would like to know from others who have installed Windows sometime after they had installed a Linux/GNU system. Either multi or solo GNU system.
Here is my lsblk output:
sudo lsblk -a
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 460.1G 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 231.8G 0 part /
├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 231.8G 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 7.8G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 29.8G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 29.8G 0 part
or
sudo lsblk -fl
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
sda1 ext4 Antergos b8e55e95-d5d9-422d-bd92-8506516d04a1
sda2 ext4 Kubuntu f211db28-021e-4475-baa2-db2d92d862dc /
sda3
sda4 ext4 Fedora22 6e661348-80f5-4041-b05a-1031c995e37a
sda5 swap 49e89d3d-6164-4957-a3be-f306674da2d3 [SWAP]
sdb
sdb1 ntfs 72FC5A6909409415
and
sudo lsblk -S
NAME HCTL TYPE VENDOR MODEL REV TRAN
sda 0:0:0:0 disk ATA WDC WD10SPCX-75H 1A01 sata
sdb 1:0:0:0 disk ATA LITEONIT LMS-32L 10E sata
For interest's sake, I have a graphical output of the above lsblk output:
265742
If there are no other safe methodologies available (other than the one from above link) then my plan is to shrink the Arch based system (since it handles/manages Grub) anywhere from 50-100 GB with Live Gparted .iso (all partitions unmounted at that time)
Format from /dev/sda1 about 50-100 GB NTFS and then install Windows;
Use Rescatux to regain Grub and update Grub there after of all OS.
Much like it would say in the link I provided earlier; however, I would still like to gather other's experiences, support, and ideas of this.
Will Windows (7,8, or 10), after install, be stubborn and prevent me in some way that I may not be aware of at the moment, to re-install Grub using above name method?
Additional information:
It is an UEFI system. However, I have not a separate /boot/efi partition.
The Arch system, managing all OS on this system, has Grub in it's /boot partition.
thank you in advance for your responses.