Do you have known working Windows 10 installation media? That's usually the sticking point. You can test by seeing if you can install windows 10 into a VM before you blow yours away.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <g...@freephile.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Betsy Schwartz <bet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You want to p2v the windows box. I think this is easier to do with >> VMware converter. You can verify that you have a fully working VM >> before you trash the original install. >> You can convert the vmware vm into OVM if you want, afterwards >> > > Thanks Betsy, but I don't really see the need to do a Physical 2 Virtual > conversion since the Windows installation is brand new / empty. It's > quicker / easier to just reinstall Windows (especially since I'm not a > VMWare expert and don't have the software). > > What I'm finding during Ubuntu installation is that I need to create a > password to disable Secure Boot (in order to install proprietary drivers). > > The Windows Boot Manager is installed into a 272 MB partition, and there is > also a 1 GB "reccovery" partition on the same SSD drive. I wonder if I can > just combine these two partitions and "reserve them for BIOS boot area", > meaning install Grub there. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
