Dual boot on an Asus E406SA

[pelouk]

Trying it in live mode is certainly a first step (thanks Jerry).


I think his greater concern is available hard disk space. This could work as an option but what size of external disk (say a flash drive}, as minesheep suggests, would you recommend to both run LL and cope with file storage?

[minesheep]

4gb of ram is enough. I think 16gb of storage is enough, but that decreases windows space by 16 gb. Also 16gb is not so much to save anything more than OS and programs. fresh install uses under 8gb but after swapfile, APT cache some programs it will quickly fill up to something like 12gb leaving 4 gb for user data files. If the laptop is UEFI only then it will need to use of experimental UEFI build. Windows itself need about 35gb of space based on my own experience so installing LL on that automatically means that everything goes to low space.
If your friend wants to not have low space notifications everywhere it can also be installed on external usb drive or even sd card

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-lite-to-usb-stick-not-ready-yet!/ Warning shocking clear instructions!

If it runs ok on live mode then space can be the only problem and it is not when using external drive/common sense

[Jerry]

Why not run it in Live mode and find out?

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[pelouk]

I've just been asked

by a friend who is interested in installing LL

an Asus E406SA and wants to know if this is possible. The laptop is marketed as a Cloudbook and runs Windows 10 S - i.e. the so-called stripped-down version of W 10. The machine is 64 bit with 4gb RAM and a fixed hard disk of 64Gb.


Has anyone had experience with this? Thoughts?