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BOOTMGR and new Linux installation (Users)

posted by Laaca Homepage, Czech republic, 14.01.2025, 17:58

For many years I use the BOOTMGR boot manager from this site on some of my computers. Now I will speak about the modern one with Win10 + FreeDOS. So, in this machine I have one physical hard disk partitioned into three partitions - Win10, FreeDOS and NTFS partiotion, now without OS (in the past I tried to install WinXP but without success) The BootMGR is configured to let me choose from these 3 partitions. Of course, if I select the partition without OS it will not boot to anything. Now I would like to install in this partition some Linux. (Ubuntu?, something else?) I have been never using Linux so it is a reason why I uncertain now. Do I have to be careful about something during the Linux instalation? What about MBR? Is here some danger that Linux installer will overwrite the MBR with BootMGR? Of course, I want to keep the possibility to boot Win10 and FreeDOS.

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