Installing on 2 disks, main on SDcard 128G, data on hdd 2T

[Eric Vanh]

Bonjour, hello,

I think I've gathered pretty much all the information I want and I'm now ready to jump ... from Suse to Qubes

Rather than a large SSD, I have 128GB sdcard for my os

And a smaller one for my /boot

I have a fairly large HDD though, 2TB with 128G flash

The disk is split and used (encrypted) by each OS,

What are the chances for me to install Qubes on SDcard, with /boot on another SDcard (shared) and all data encrypted on the HDD ?

Thks !

Éric

[Eric Vanh]

Lenovo T440p i7 4910MQ 16GB ram

[unman]

> ??ric
>

Welcome to Qubes.
This was pretty much the setup I used on my desktop with 3.2, and
although some things have changed in Qubes 4.0 I dont think that will
matter.
I would run the installation as normal , installing to the SSDs - you
have an option as to where to store the bootloader on instal afaik, and
can select and partition the disks as yo wish.
You should read the doc page on multibooting:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot

Once you have Qubes installed, you can create a new storage pool on the
HDD and use that as your default for qubes. (I kept some qubes on the
faster disk)
Again, read https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage

Enjoy

[Eric Vanh]

Thank you for your quick encouraging answer.

So 2GB SD cards for /Boot (one for each OS)

128GB for OS (One for each OS)

2000GB SSHDD (Hybrid) for all OS (Suse, Win10, WinXP, Qubes) shared

As for the VM, do I need to set it up from start, like for my windows 10 part, I would need a 260GB session, with 4+1 partitions, same as my current installation, /Boot (outside the VM)  /System; /temp; /swap /Documents

in VM environment I would have the later 3 as VM partitions.

Last time I used VB on Suse for my XP, was maybe 15 years ago ?

WinXP has DOOM pre-installed ... I want to be able to play again even if just once !