On 2023-05-22 23:18, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/22/23 11:43, mick.crane wrote:
This is a request for best practice, perceived knowledge.
For one reason and another this PC/Workstation (what is the
difference?)
boots in legacy mode. It was something to do with the SS usb port not
booting the installer in EFI mode.
I forget exactly.
Anyway, it's a niggle that it is legacy mode and changing a working
system seems a palaver.
As I have the /home stuff all being/copied onto another disk I thought
I'd reinstall and try to get it tidy.
Why do you think legacy mode is untidy?
I had previously installed Ubuntu on this disk,
after installing Bookworm the Ubuntu EFI option in the BIOS was still
there.
I removed it in the BIOS menu. There was some message in the boot screen
in legacy mode
"Alternate (partition?) corrupted using primary" or something.
It doesn't seem to have stopped anything working.
root@pumpkin:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors
Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7899140a
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 466862079 466860032 222.6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 466864126 468860927 1996802 975M 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 466864128 468860927 1996800 975M 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
root@pumpkin:~#
boot is in /
Is sda2 something to do with EFI?
I thought to try this virtualisation.
Why?
I thought maybe I could run a Windows program in a window on Debian
desktop.
Q1. Would openbox be the one to go for?
Things I use work happily on Bookworm but seems openbox is only
available in Sid for now.
Should I try to build openbox or try to get it from Sid if OpenBox is
what I want?
I have purchased 64Gb of this DIMM memory for the experimentation.
mick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
David
also thanks to Dan.
mick
