Re: Lenovo Y520 and Debian?

2017-09-19 Thread Bill Harris
Bjorn, that looks promising if a bit complex. I think I've got 256GB of SSD, but I suspect that's not enough for /Windows and / on Linux. Josh, I think you're right. Perhaps that's the way to go: Linux will be slower than it could be, but it may be easier. What I don't know is if I can leave ev

Re: Lenovo Y520 and Debian?

2017-09-19 Thread Josh Blagden
This forum thread might help with the RAID issue: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Lenovo-Legion-Y520-Linux-Support/td-p/3694784 Josh Blagden > On Sep 19, 2017, at 3:03 PM, DI Florian Reitmeir wrote: > > Hi, > > virtualbox does run on all windows editios since windows 7. > > >>

Re: Lenovo Y520 and Debian?

2017-09-19 Thread Josh Blagden
I thought I read something somewhere that said you can turn off RAID in the BIOS for the Y520. Or that might be for the Y720, though I'm pretty sure those two laptops are very similar, the only difference I can discern being the amount of VRAM for the GPU. Josh Blagden > On Sep 19, 2017, at 2:

Re: Lenovo Y520 and Debian?

2017-09-19 Thread DI Florian Reitmeir
Hi, virtualbox does run on all windows editios since windows 7. Am 19.09.2017 um 05:08 schrieb Bill Harris: > Thanks for the suggestion, Shawn.  I've thought about it, but I don't > have a Windows license that allows that (unless W10 is different than > my understanding of my prior W7 license).