Revision as of 18:30, 2 January 2018

Reference

• Create Partiton

Partition

Finding Disk Management

• Type Control Panel in Search window
  • System and Security
    • Administrative Tools
      • Create and format hard disk partitons

Shrink Existing

• Selected OS (C) - the shrink
• default was
  • size before shrink 230974 MB
  • size after 124107
• click on Shrink

Create Partition

• Open Computer Management by selecting the Start button. The select Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
• In the left pane, under Storage, select Disk Management.
• Right-click an unallocated region on your hard disk, and then select New Simple Volume.
• In the New Simple Volume Wizard, select Next.
• Enter the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes (MB) or accept the maximum default size, and then select Next.
• Accept the default drive letter or choose a different drive letter to identify the partition, and then select Next.
• In the Format Partition dialog box, do one of the following:
  • If you don't want to format the volume right now, select Do not format this volume, and then select Next.
  • To format the volume with the default settings, select Next.
• Review your choices, and then select Finish.

Create Boot Ubuntu Installation of USB

Download

• Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
• File name: ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

Reference

• Copy ISO to USB

Steps

• Plug in USB dongle
• Open Mac terminal window

 diskutil list
   ...
   /dev/disk4 (external, physical):
      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *7.8 GB     disk4
      1:             Windows_FAT_32 KINGSTON                7.7 GB     disk4s1
 
 sudo umount /dev/disk4s1
   umount(/Volumes/KINGSTON): Resource busy -- try 'diskutil unmount'
 diskutil umount /dev/disk4s1
   Volume KINGSTON on disk4s1 unmounted
 
 sudo dd if=ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/rdisk4s1 bs=1m
   1514+1 records in
   1514+1 records out
   1587609600 bytes transferred in 749.040110 secs (2119525 bytes/sec)
 
 diskutil eject /dev/disk4s1
   Disk /dev/disk4s1 ejected

The 1m and rdisk4s1 in the dd command improve speed.

Hibernation off

From Andrew Gilligan (12/17/17) "One thing of note, regardless of single or multiple disk booting strategies, you may need to disable hibernate on the Windows side, it expects a warm boot to return to Windows, when it goes to Linux instead it causes headaches on the next boot of Windows."

• Hibernation setting

• Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
• In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
• When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
• At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press Enter.
• Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

Install Ubuntu

• Windows And Ubuntu Dual Boot Guide
• UEFI bootable USB Drive