General Linux Install toturial

1. Make sure your disk has 4 partitions: 500MB fat32, 34GB swap, 60GB ext2, 200GB ext4

 

2. When you install a system, you choose advanced manual install. And don't encrypt your system and data, otherwise you will lose all of them in the future when your system broken.

 

3. Use fat32 as "/boot/efi", ext2 as "/", ext4 as "/home". Sometimes, you need to format fat32 and ext2.

 

4. After the installation, the boot menu would be in 500MB fat32 partition, the linux core system would be in 60GB ext2 partition, the home folder would in in 200GB ext4 partition. So that even if you massed up with your system next time, you won't lose your home folder data.

 

5. If you installed a lot of other system, you can use "sudo update-grub" to add those new system into the boot menu.

 

6. I would suggest you not to update your bios software because they normally make you harder to install multi-system.