Good tutorial for Dual-boot w/ Mint?

[Admiral Naismith]

Hello,

 

Anyone have any good suggestions for a tutorial for setting up a dual-boot with Win 8.1 and Mint?

 

I have my OS on an SSD linked up with a Harddrive. I want to install Mint on the harddrive.

 

I'm going to take a guess and tell me if I ****ed up-

I partition the hdd separating ~30gb of unallocated space. Then I download the ISO file onto a USB flashdrive, and then enter the bios. Tell it to boot from the USB, then go through with the installation making sure that it installs onto the new 'drive'.

If the above is correct, do I have to go to the bios every time I want to change the OS I'm using?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Not sure if it matters, but my Mobo is the Z97 Extreme 4 from Asrock.

[Kiyuubi]

Dual booting, especially with well rounded distros, is realtively easy. 

 

Once you start the installation Mint will ask you where you want to install it.  From there you just point it at your HDD instead of your SSD.  The installer will ask if you want to do partioning manually, or just let it decide, and you can choose either or.

 

When you turn your computer on it will ask you if you want to boot into Windows or to Mint.

[Admiral Naismith]

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Thanks for the reply, linux is so... approachable these days. Have a good day!