There's the certain point when installing this os that makes you to select the drive when you want to install it :
That's the point I'm asking about
I find it creepy that the installer, unlike on Manjaro doesn't let me to select a certain place where I want grub to be in (and I have Manjaro installed right now on dev/sdc , so my third drive(an external ssd with usb 3.0 since I'm using a laptop) , the first 2 being windows 10 and storage
So the question is where does grub go when you install it like this ?
It couldn't be simpler, you just click on the EFI partition, select the option to preserve existing data, and choose a mount point (/boot/efi would be the typical choice).
Far trickier is resizing the Windows partition, which should be done from within the Windows environment--not Calamares. From your screenshot it looks like you haven't done that yet. I would close out of the installer, boot into Windows, and get that squared away before you proceed.
But yes, all multiboot setups should ideally use the manual partitioning setup because it is the easiest way to achieve exactly the configuration you want.
Before you do that, close out of the installer and boot into Windows to resize the Windows partition. Do not attempt to resize the Windows partition from within Calamares.
Not to diss anyone, but the replace partition or install alongside buttons offer themselves as a convenient alternative if you don’t want to have your EFI wiped
Adding a question on where to install the bootloader only makes any sense if you have more than one EFI partition, which doesn’t really make sense itself either. Why would you have your EFI partition on a separate device than the install itself? If you’re wiping an entire disk you’re wiping everything on that disk, including the EFI. Since everything installed on that disk was wiped, why would you want to keep the EFI partition?
I- wh-what. I have never even touched the manual partitioning option on actual hardware before, that’s what install alongside and replace partition are for after all? I recommend people resize in windows and then use replace partition to “replace” the empty space with Garuda, it works excellently and is stupid simple and near impossible to mess up.
You are missing out, it’s simple and works great! I would say the manual partitioning method is the less likely to yeild a mistake, but then again it is the method I am more comfortable with.
This is very good advice.
You are missing out, it’s simple and works great! I would say the manual partitioning method is the less likely to yeild a mistake, but then again it is the method I am more comfortable with.