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[daniel1212]

The 18.3 installer does do this.

I would be surprised if it actually created the 3 partitions it wants if you chose a different large location under "Something else," rather the default. From my past experience, its either you let Linux take the whole disk, or do any "alongside" install on the partition it wants, you must create all 3 and correctly identify everything to do so. I have done this before, as with Puppy, but did not want to get into it this time.

It gives you the option to do it manually or auto with a slider if I remember right.

The slide comes in the along side" image,

id you play with the windows dual boot options at all first?

No.

I don’t know man. All three of my installs went fine and did what it was supposed to do smoothly over default undoctored windows. Over three different Windows OS versions, one XP 32 bit emachine, One win 7 64 bit AZUS, and one brand new win 10 HP. I hope you find the issue so that we all know what hung it up. That kind of information is priceless

Actually with all the flavors of Linux then its forums show plenty of issues relative to the number of uses, including dual booting problems.

The solution that i choose is described here , which is to simply use EasyBCD edit to add a new entry to the Windows bootloader itself (it would be helpful if Linux provided and made that a clear option in the Linux installation).

I used EasyBCD edit yeas ago, and what this edit to the Windows 7 boot menu does is add Linux to it, after Win 7, and choosing the former results in the Grub2 boot menu which has Linux Mint on the top, and auto boots to it after a few secs. And since the keyboard on the laptop does not respond quickly to the boot menu, and the Grub2 has a lot of entries (which I know can be edited someplace), then the Windows bootloader edit is a better option.

I tested both, and both boot fine, thanks to be God, though this took too much time. I hope to customize Linux later. Thanks fo you feedback.

[Openurmind]

Sorry you had so much trouble, honestly the first I have heard of that much trouble. Please let me know what you think of it after you use it a bit!

[daniel1212]

Dual booting problem are not that uncommon .

Thanks. If anyone knows of a comparable software that enables adding many functions to the desktop right click menue Right-Click Extender 2.0 that it could help.

What i usually do among other things, if the OS is for my use, is install Firefox ESR (to prevent the greatly-reduced functionality Quantum from taking it over, disable wireless, and install FF ESR, launch and go to Tools>Options>Advanced and check Never update..., and close and enable wireless and restart FF), then and hack the Firefox shortcut -no-remote -p in order to run multiple profiles, and migrate my profile folder from Windows (Linux should not require running a terminal to enable this) and merge or create a new profile using this one.

Likewise installing Apache Open Office and or Libre, and merging certain user files from the Windows install (Autocorrect, toolbars, dictionary, colors etc.). Or just moving the whole user folder into the right location before installing the new OO one.

And more important, I install Wine and then BPBible (better than what Linux offers in its class), which also means importing some user files, once I find out where they go.

As my fingers are rather stiff (I must lift up my hand and type with my middle finger for each letter - then fix typos), and i do much copy and pasting, then I use AutoHotKey to remapp CapsLock to coy (ctrl+c) and Esc to paste, and NumLock to Esc, which is much much faster for me. Only on one (Fedora) or two Linux distros (many searches and attempts) was this possible via the keyboard shortcuts route.

As this laptop is intended for someone else, then I am not sure if he would want this hack, but i find it very useful They is a Linux program called AutoKey, but it is hardly capable it seems.