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How to setup Grub-legacy + Grub2 for Dualbooting... Legacy can be a pain in the Ass.... Hope you can understand my ramblings of how it works :)

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[blackoutworm]

Could you make a guide on how to split /home and file system into two partitions?

I have everything installed on the same partition now, and I don't want to reinstall the whole thing just so I can have separated partitions.

[67576856666478964567]

@blackoutworm

Its not hard and wont ruin your system if you do it correctly, ignore the ignorant comment. Just boot into a livecd with gparted and resize the partition, and then format it to whatever you want. Then manually migrate your files.

[Linux4UnMe]

@67576856666478964567

Mate if you split a partition which contains / There is a chance it could be susceptible to data loss. Then you would have to reinstall that partition anyways. I know this because it has happened to me before. My comment was not ignorant...

[Linux4UnMe]

@blackoutworm

If you take 67576856666478964567's advice. Make sure you backup everything.... Resizing can often cause data loss, it has happened to me on several occasions. You may have to do a full reinstall in the end anyways if you are unlucky enough. Let me know how it goes anyways

[Linux4UnMe]

@TheLinuxsensei

ah ok. Well... I can't give a 100% answer. I assume you would still be able to boot into your other distro just as long as you don't remove your grub install. It would be pretty hard to mess up a debian install anyways... it is easy to install... whether it will automatically detect your other o.s or not I am not sure... you may have to manually configure it.... Another option is to do an advanced install of debian and don't install the bootloader then add debian to xubuntu grub

[Linux4UnMe]

@TheLinuxsensei

depends how big the partitions are I guess..... and I am confused as to your last question.... I don't know what you mean... how would nvidia affect your other installed distros? :s I guess the answer is "ofcoarse" you can

[blackoutworm]

@Linux4UnMe Thanks:) I didn't know it was that risky, so it's just not worth it.

[Linux4UnMe]

@67576856666478964567

I think DaSolentLprince was referring to my hesitation in mentioning windows with enthusiasm :)

[Linux4UnMe]

@67576856666478964567

hahahaha. smart ass :P

[DaSilentLprince]

@67576856666478964567 Too true!

[67576856666478964567]

@DaSilentLprince

There is nothing brilliant about Windows.