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title = "Disks"
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lastmod = "2017-07-22T15:15:08+03:00"
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# Disks
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Solus provides multiple ways you can install onto your system.
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1. Solus can take up the entire drive.
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2. You can install Solus next to your existing operating system, such as Windows. *If you have multiple operating systems
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installed, we will choose the largest option.*
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3. You can manually configure your system. This is only recommend for advanced users which may desire to have a dedicated `/home` partition. Note that if you manually configure your system, you will need to restart the Installer for those changes to apply appropriately.
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Alongside these options, we also provide the ability to use full-disk encryption. For the obvious reason of it being full-disk, this
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assumes you are installing Solus onto the entire drive.
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## UEFI
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If you are using a system with UEFI, you may need to create a EFI System Partition, also referred to as an ESP. This is not necessary if you are enabling Solus to install onto the entire disk.
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To create an EFI System Partition, open up GParted and create a FAT32 partition that is 512MB in size. Next, right-click on the partition and click Manage Flags. On the Manage Flags section, enable the `boot` and `esp` flags.
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**Notes:**
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- Your system must be booted using UEFI mode, as opposed to a "legacy mode".
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- Secure Boot needs to be disabled.
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- Your disk is required to be GPT formatted. |