Hi all,
I’m interested in installing Manjaro as a third boot option on my PC, I currently run linux mint xfce and Windows 10. I tried Manjaro on an old computer and loved it and want to figure out how to install it on my current computer. Last time I tried it I tried to install it over Mint and it was a disaster and had to reinstall Windows and Mint. I got stuck on the grub bootloader.
From what I understand is Mint bootloader can’t boot Manjaro, but if I install the Manjaro bootloader I can choose to boot Windows, Mint, or Manjaro from there. I want to shrink my Windows partition by 100gb for space for Manjaro and have it as a third option. I’ve looked on the Manjaro wiki but I"m a noob and can’t really understand partitioning things correctly. I’d appreciate some detailed instructions (steps for graphical installer, which partitions (beyond the 100gb one, if any, I need to create) on how to install Manjaro using its graphical installer in a way that maintains both Windows and Mint.
-if I shrink a partition from Windows, how should this be formatted? I want this to be 100gb
-do I need any additional partitions?
-do I install the Manjaro bootloader over the Mint bootloader? I beleve this is in /dev/nvme0n1pt (EFI system partition (100mb) (flags boot, legacy_boot_,esp)
-the goal is to have the manjaro bootloader pop up and be able to choose either of these three OSs whenever
I’ve coped the info for my current partitions below.
Really appreciate your help.
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.96 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: PM961 NVMe SAMSUNG 512GB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 37AB22AF-88BC-4161-A744-EFDD58534716
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3 239616 803041943 802802328 382.8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 999178240 1000212479 1034240 505M Windows recovery environmen
/dev/nvme0n1p5 803043328 999178239 196134912 93.5G Linux filesystem
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Disk /dev/loop8: 173.24 MiB, 181649408 bytes, 354784 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop9: 226.68 MiB, 237678592 bytes, 464216 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop10: 73.10 MiB, 77565952 bytes, 151496 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes