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✅ WHat is a Perfect plan?

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1️⃣ It must get adapted to different user types: Dual booting Lin-Win

2️⃣ It must allow version hopping or distrohopping
have data separated from the OS
👍🏻 You can change OS without losing information

3️⃣ It must allow interaction between OOSS: tunneling
common channel between both OS

4️⃣ No matter the circumstances, the system must work
Linux will boot windows
But just incase you uninstall Linux, make windows independent
💊 Create booting for windows too, do not rely on linux. Maybe oneday you want to uninstall Linux

  • ➡️ If we follow this plan, disks will be adaptative

✅ Steps on installation

1️⃣ Check your specs, limits

  • use commands
  • use CPU-Z

  • check the following

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  • check motherboard architecture
  • check BIOS, UEFI

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2️⃣ Use GPartEd in order to create the partitions manually

  • do not use nextmode

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💡 Conclusion

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3️⃣ Install each OS

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💡 General Rule

  • need to install windows first
  • then linux second
  • linux repsects windows, but not viceversa

  • (⭐️ exam question)
  • for win+win
  • install old version first
  • new second
  • new over old
  • 7 ➡️ 8 ➡️ 9 ➡️ 10

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4️⃣ Install Bootstrap Loader

  • create the menu
  • if you did things in order, the linux gives you the order automatically
  • name of the menu in linux: GRUB

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  • (⭐️ exam question)
  • in a win+win
  • you need to add the menu manually
  • you need an external program to create the menu
  • use Windows Boot Manager(winload.exe)
  • or BCEdit(BCEdit.exe)

5️⃣ Format GRUB

  • decorate your menu
  • add company/customer logos…

  • (1) change the wallpaper of the menu
  • (2) choose the OS by default
  • (3) waiting time: how much we will wait before booting the OS
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❓ What happens if waiting time to 0 seconds?
- fast booting
- we will not see the menu(bootstrap loader)

🛠️ when you want to hide the expert OS
so clients cannot go into other OS

⭐️ Important!

  • all the partitions that need to exist
  • in all the possible situations
  • in order to have a perfect disk

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✔️ legacy ❤️ windows

  • all partitions are NTFS
  • two mandatory partitions:

    • MSR: for booting windows if Linux is uninstalled, windows will boot independantly, NTFS, Primary, contain booting files, needs to be 300MB
    • C:: kernel of the system, NTFS
  • recommended partition:
    • for data: for version-hopping, NTFS

✔️ UEFI ❤️ windows

  • three mandatory partitions:

    • MSR: for booting windows independently, needs to be 16MB
    • C:: kernel, NTFS
    • ESP: (EFI System Partition), must be FAT32, only partition in the Windows universe that is NOT NTFS
    • bc if it was NTFS, windows would set a letter
    • then the user can think he can use it, save files inside
    • so the system makes it FAT32
    • so that it does not have a letter, so that users do not access
    • to avoid letters, to avoid users from touching
  • recommended partition:

    • for data: for version-hopping, NTFS

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⭐️⭐️⭐️ EXAM ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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