{"id":86,"date":"2010-01-03T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:29:01","slug":"single-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/install-linux\/single-boot","title":{"rendered":"Single-boot Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Single-boot or &#8220;single boot&#8221; is when only one (1) operating system will be installed to your hard drive. \u00a0A single boot machine is a simple way install Linux. The single boot scenario typically consists of either<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Completely wiping out the current Operating system and installing Linux, or<\/li>\n<li>Installing Linux on a new and blank hard drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve performed both, and as stated, the process is simple. \u00a0You put in your Linux Live or Install CD and follow the prompts. \u00a0Many distros offer graphical installers which take you step-by-step, and typically asking you to confirm all the choices (default or custom) before any changes are written to the hard drive. \u00a0Some distros offer text-based installers which can be a bit too challenging to the new Linux user.<\/p>\n<p>More on this topic later, but a word on <em><strong>partitions<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0A partition is a &#8220;chunk&#8221; or &#8220;area&#8221; of your hard drive. \u00a0If you plan on trying other distros and still want a single-boot setup, you should definitely consider <strong>creating a minimum of 3 partitions<\/strong> where the <strong>swap<\/strong> area, <strong>root partition<\/strong> and &#8220;<strong>\/home<\/strong>&#8221; are the 3 separate partitions. \u00a0A separate \/home partition allows you to keep all of your documents when installing the next distro.\u00a0 For <a title=\"Partitioning in concept\" href=\"http:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/install-linux\/partitioning-for-linux\/\" target=\"_self\">more detail about partitioning follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-boot or &#8220;single boot&#8221; is when only one (1) operating system will be installed to your hard drive. \u00a0A single boot machine is a simple way install Linux. The single boot scenario typically consists of either Completely wiping out the current Operating system and installing Linux, or Installing Linux on a new and blank hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-install-linux","tag-install"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}