How to Install Linux Mint 1. Alongside Windows 1. Dual Boot UEFI Mode. Linux Mint 1. 8 has been released in wild by the Linux Mint project developer team as a new long term support edition which will receive support and security updates until 2. This tutorial will guide you on how you can install Linux Mint 1. Microsoft Operating System, such as Windows 8, 8. EFI firmware and a pre installed version of Microsoft OS. If youre looking for a non dual boot installation on Laptop, Desktop or Virtual Machine, you should read Installation of Linux Mint 1. Install Linux Mint 1. Dual Boot with Windows 1. Windows 8. Assuming that your laptop or desktop system comes pre installed with Windows 1. How to Install Windows 8 and 8. VirtualBox Information This will show you how to install either the 32bit x86 or 64bit x64 vers. Windows 8. 1 or 8 you should enter UEFI menu and disable the following settings Secure Boot and Fast Boot features. If the computer has no pre installed OS and you intend to use Linux and Windows in dual boot, first install Microsoft Windows and then proceed with Linux Mint 1. Download Linux Mint 1. Linux Mint 1. 8 ISO image https www. In case you own a UEFI computer stay away from the 3. Linux Mint because it will only boot and work with BIOS machines, while the 6. ISO image can boot with BIOS or UEFI computers. Step 1 Shrink HDD Space for Dual Boot. Mountinstall.wim_.png' alt='Install Windows Iscsi Boot' title='Install Windows Iscsi Boot' />GPXE allows you to boot an operating system directly from a Storage Area Network, using a protocol such as iSCSI or AoE. In this setup, you do not need a TFTP server. ESXi and vCenter Server 6. Documentation VMware vSphere ESXi and vCenter Server 6. Documentation vSphere Installation and Setup Updated Information. In case your computer comes pre installed with Microsoft Windows on a single partition, logon to Windows system with a user who has administrator privileges, press Winr keys to open run prompt and type the following command in order to open Disk Management tool. Open Windows Disk Management. Right click on C partition and select Shrink Volume in order to resize the partition. Shrink Windows Partition. Use a value best suited for you, depending on your HDD size, on the amount of space to shrink MB field minimum 2. MB recommended and hit Shrink button to start the process of resizing the partition. Assign Partition Size. When the process finishes a new unallocated space will appear on the hard drive. Unallocated Partition. Close Disk Management utility, place Linux Mint DVD or USB bootable image in the appropriate drive and reboot the computer in order to start with Linux Mint 1. In case youre booting Linux Mint for installation from a USB dive in UEFI mode make sure youve created the bootable USB stick using a utility such as Rufus, which is UEFI compatible, otherwise your USB bootable drive wont boot. Step 2 Installation of Linux Mint 1. After reboot, press the special function key and instruct the machine firmware UEFI to boot up from the appropriate DVD or USB drive the special function keys usually are F1. F1. 0 or F2 depending on the motherboard manufacturer. Once the media boots up a new screen should appear on your monitor. Choose Start Linux Mint 1. Cinnamon and hit Enter to continue. Select Start Linux Mint Cinnamon Install. Wait until the system loads into RAM in order to run in live mode and open the installer by double clicking on Install Linux Mint icon. Choose the language you wish to perform the installation and click on Continue button to proceed further. Select Install Linux Mint. Select Installation Language. On the next screen hit on Continue button to proceed further. Third party software can be automatically download and installed on this step by checking the check box. The recommendation would be to leave the box unchecked for the moment and manually install proprietary software later, after the installation process completes. Preparing to Install Linux Mint 1. At the next screen you can choose the Installation Type. If Windows Boot manager is automatically detected you can choose to Install Linux Mint alongside Windows Boot Manager. This option ensures that the HDD will be automatically partitioned by the installer without any data loss. The second option, Erase disk and install Ubuntu, should be avoided for dual boot because is potentially dangerous and will wipe out your disk. For a more flexible partition layout you should go with Something else option and hit on Continue button to proceed further. Select Installation Type for Linux Mint 1. Daemon By Daniel Suarez Pdf Printer here. Now lets create the partition layout for Linux Mint 1. I would recommend that you create three partitions, one for root, one for home accounts data and one partition for swap. First create the swap partition. Select the free space and hit on the icon from below. On this partition use the following settings and hit OK to create the partition Size 1. MB. Type for the new partition Primary. Location for the new partition Beginning of this space. Use as swap area. Select Free Partition Space. Create Swap Partition. Using the same steps as above create the root partition with the below settings Size minimum 2. GB. Type for the new partition Primary. Location for the new partition Beginning of this space. Use as EXT4 journaling file system. Mount point Select Free Space. Create Root Partition. Finally, create the home slice with the below settings use all the available free space to create home partition. Home partition is the place where all documents for user accounts will be stored by default, except the root account. In case of a system failure you can reinstall the operating system for scratch without touching or losing the settings and documents of all users. Size remaining free space. Type for the new partition Primary. Location for the new partition Beginning. Use as EXT4 journaling file system. Mount point home. Create Home Partition. After finishing creating the partition layout, select Windows Boot Manager as the device for installing the Grub boot loader and hit on Install Now button in order to commit changes to disk and proceed with the installation. Next a new pop up window will ask you if you agree with committing changes to disk. Hit on Continue to accept changes and the installer will now start to write changes to disk. Linux Mint 1. 8 Partition Summary. Accept Write Changes to Disk. On the next screen choose your nearest physical location from the map and hit Continue. Select Country Zone. Next you should select your keyboard layout and click on Continue button. Select Keyboard Layout. Enter a username and a password for the first account with root privileges, choose your system hostname by filling the computers name field with a descriptive value and hit Continue to finalize the installation process. Create User Account. The installation process will take a while and when it reaches the final step it will ask you to hit on Restart Now button to complete the installation. Linux Mint 1. 8 Installation Completed. After reboot, the system will first boot up in Grub, with Linux Mint as the first boot option which will be automatically started after 1. Form here you can further instruct the computer to boot in Windows or Linux. On computers with newer UEFI firmware the Grub boot loader wont be displayed by default and the machine will automatically boot up in Windows. In order to boot into Linux you must press the special function boot key after restart and from there to further select what OS you wish to start. In order to change the default boot order enter UEFI settings, select your default OS and save the changes. Review the vendors manual in order to detect the special function keys used for boot or for entering UEFI settings. After the system finishes loading, log in to Linux Mint 1. Fire up a Terminal window and start the update process from command line by running the following commands sudo apt get update. Thats it You have successfully installed the latest version of Linux Mint 1. You will find Linux Mint platform to be very robust, fast, flexible, enjoyable, easy to use, with a ton of software required for a normal user already installed and very stable.