Hi. I’m a college student who is sometimes required to take tests online. Pearsons online lockdown browser, which unfortunately doesn’t have a Linux version, is a necessary product that I need to be able to use. As such, I have to reinstall Windows, so that I don’t get expelled from my College when I run it in a VM and have to argue whether or not I cheated when doing so.
One problem, I have no idea how to do so. The results of lsblk are this
I want to make free space on sda2, around maybe 150 gigs, and then reinstall windows on that. If I’m required to dual boot anyway, might as well stop using wine and windows VM’s, right?
Anyways, I’d appreciate help for the entire process. I think that I have to use a live usb running gparted to try and make free space on sda2 and then make a partition that is ntfs, and I’m pretty sure that I need a live usb that is running windows which will install on the newly made partition, but I need a pretty structured set of steps before going on, and I’m pretty sure I’m missing like 50 steps. I CANNOT MESS THIS UP, as this is the only laptop I have access to, and bricking it means I would fail this year by default.
I appreciate all your help in advance, and look forward to your responses.
Resizing Manjaro is a good way to accomplish it. Its not a good idea to resize a mounted partition, especially one that holds the working OS. Backup important files. Boot into a manjaro install media. Use gparted to resize the partition. Do it before bed as it will likely take a long time to accomplish.
have you solved the problem? Im trying to reinstall linux as well and its such a pain for me, actually
Hi. I’m a college student who is sometimes required to take tests online. Pearsons online lockdown browser, which unfortunately doesn’t have a Linux version, is a necessary product that I need to be able to use. As such, I have to reinstall Windows, so that I don’t get expelled from my College when I run it in a VM and have to argue whether or not I cheated when doing so.
One problem, I have no idea how to do so. The results of lsblk are this
I want to make free space on sda2, around maybe 150 gigs, and then reinstall windows on that. If I’m required to dual boot anyway, might as well stop using wine and windows VM’s, right? By the way I found some interesting stuff to read on https://phdessay.com/free-essays-on/human-resources/ and I was really surprised that these essays about human resources are useful and gripping!
Anyways, I’d appreciate help for the entire process. I think that I have to use a live usb running gparted to try and make free space on sda2 and then make a partition that is ntfs, and I’m pretty sure that I need a live usb that is running windows which will install on the newly made partition, but I need a pretty structured set of steps before going on, and I’m pretty sure I’m missing like 50 steps. I CANNOT MESS THIS UP, as this is the only laptop I have access to, and bricking it means I would fail this year by default.
I appreciate all your help in advance, and look forward to your responses.