On Monday 26 May 2025 09:10:53 pm David Christensen wrote:
> 1. Motherboard Windows license -- manufacturers have been putting the
> Windows license into the motherboard for several years now (firmware
> EEPROM?). Windows must be running on the hardware to see the license.
>
Ack!
I remember
On 5/26/25 11:23, Lee wrote:
For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
into linux and run windows as a vm?
My wife is trying to decide if she wants to keep windows on her laptop
or no. Obviously, it's ea
On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM Lee wrote:
>
> [...]
> > > For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
> > > system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
> > > into linux and run windows as a vm?
I have one Windows machine installed on a SSD with a USB
On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM Hans wrote:
>
> Am Montag, 26. Mai 2025, 20:23:04 CEST schrieb Lee:
> > For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
> > system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
> > into linux and run windows as a vm?
> >
> > My wife i
On 26.05.2025 23:23, Lee wrote:
For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
into linux and run windows as a vm?
Both. Each of my laptops and a PC I use for work have dual-boot Windows
7 or 10 and Debian. I
On Mon, 26 May 2025 14:23:04 -0400
Lee wrote:
> … but I don't know if dual boot or running windows in a vm would be
> better, or what the tradeoffs would be.
>
> Anyone care to say which is the better option, tradeoffs, pitfalls,
> etc?
One tradeoff is that with one machine virtual, you can run
On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM Joe wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 May 2025 14:23:04 -0400
> Lee wrote:
>
> > For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
> > system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
> > into linux and run windows as a vm?
> >
> > My wife is
On 5/26/25 20:42, john doe wrote:
On 5/26/25 20:23, Lee wrote:
For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
into linux and run windows as a vm?
My wife is trying to decide if she wants to keep windows on he
Am Montag, 26. Mai 2025, 20:23:04 CEST schrieb Lee:
> For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
> system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
> into linux and run windows as a vm?
>
> My wife is trying to decide if she wants to keep windows on her la
On 5/26/25 20:23, Lee wrote:
For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
into linux and run windows as a vm?
My wife is trying to decide if she wants to keep windows on her laptop
or no. Obviously, it's ea
On May 26, 2025 11:23:43 AM Lee wrote:
For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot
system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot
into linux and run windows as a vm?
I use dual boot...on a couple machines.
It's not always simple... UEFI is complicat
Hans composed on 2022-05-02 12:44 (UTC+0200):
...
> When I got it running, I tried to install grub again onto the MBR, which was
> successfull. But now appeared a blue screen, with choices: "Wait 10 seconds -
> go on - Restart - Do not ask any more" (similar, is from my remembers).
...
> Can ssom
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 12:44:32PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> yesterday I installed debian bullseye besides a windows system. As UEFI could
> not switched off, I used gparted to make the windows partition smaller.
>
> Then used an usb-stick and installed bullseye as usual.
>
> However
Hello guys,
As I promised, here a more detailed solution, with the steps I really used:
The problem:
* You have a Windows 10 UEFI and a Linux Legacy boot. They both work, but
to choose what to boot you need to change the BIOS option each time.
Possible solutions discussed in the thread:
1. Let
Hello all,
Thank you very much for all this thread and discussion.
Let me get back to you.
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 18:26, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Dear Pascal,
>
> If Windows boots in EFI mode :
> Mount the EFI partition on /boot/efi.
> Install grub-efi-amd64.
> Boot some Linux media in EFI mo
On 2019-10-08, Joe wrote:
>
> But I'm pretty sure that any pre-installed Windows, and very few people
> now install it themselves, will be a UEFI installation, which cannot be
> changed to boot in legacy mode, nor vice-versa.
>
>From what I'm understanding you're batting a thousand here, Joe.
ht
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 23:29:09 +0200
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 07/10/2019 à 09:42, Joe a écrit :
> > On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 23:26:32 +0200
> > Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >
> >> Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one
> >>>
Le 07/10/2019 à 09:42, Joe a écrit :
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 23:26:32 +0200
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one
you want, you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and
vice-versa, then you can boot.
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:45:37 -0300
Beco wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have this laptop problem to solve: the original windows 10 is kept,
> shrunk partition to 1TB, originally cryptographied (but now normal).
> The rest was given to Linux, Debian 10: 800GB root and 8.2GB swap.
>
> Now the system can b
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 23:26:32 +0200
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
> >
> > Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one
> > you want, you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and
> > vice-versa, then you can boot.
>
> Would you mind
Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one you want,
you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and vice-versa, then you
can boot.
Would you mind telling which systems boots in EFI mode and which one
boots in legacy mode ?
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:45:37 -0300
Beco wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have this laptop problem to solve: the original windows 10 is kept,
> shrunk partition to 1TB, originally cryptographied (but now normal).
> The rest was given to Linux, Debian 10: 800GB root and 8.2GB swap.
>
> Now the system can b
Le 11/06/2019 à 21:45, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit :
On 06/11/2019 02:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two reasons.
1) Obviously, it allows the drive to boot by itself so that you can
move it into another machine, or remove the current boot drive, or
chan
On 06/11/2019 02:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 11/06/2019 ?? 13:36, songbird a ??crit :
what i'm not sure of is if you need to bother with
putting the grub bootloader on it so at the end
where it asks you perhaps you can skip that step.
IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two rea
Le 11/06/2019 à 13:36, songbird a écrit :
what i'm not sure of is if you need to bother with
putting the grub bootloader on it so at the end
where it asks you perhaps you can skip that step.
IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two reasons.
1) Obviously, it allows the drive to boot by
Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> My Debian platform has four drives:
>
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
> ??sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part /
> ??sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
> ??sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP]
> sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
> ??sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /sdb1
>
On 6/10/19 7:04 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
My Debian platform has four drives:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
??sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part /
??sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
??sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
??sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /s
Le 10/06/2019 à 16:04, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit :
sda is a 500 GB SSD, currently the boot drive, running Stretch
(...)
I am planning on adding a 1 TB SSD to the system to be dedicated to
Buster (currently Testing).
I know that if I select the new drive (for the purpose of this note,
sdd) f
Doug wrote:
> And disconnect the Windows drive
> when you install Linux.
completely paranoid approach, but if you are not sure in what you are doing,
it is justified. However for the record it is not necessary to do any of
this and even not required to have 2 drives, unless you do some windows
fa
On 02/09/2017 10:24 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
On 02/09/2017 05:11 PM, Lori . wrote:
/snip/
I'm really confused, if you can and or
have the time please guide me for the Dual Boot installation process.
I've
been a big follower of Debian Linux for 3 years. I don't know why
this time
I'm having
On 02/09/2017 05:11 PM, Lori . wrote:
Hello, I've been having some problematic issues with the install of Debian
8. I'm trying to do a so called "Dual-Boot" with my Windows 10 dell laptop.
I've partitioned my disk and shrunk it to 125gb of free space. I have a
FAT32 usb stick that holds 16gb on i
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 20:11:55 -0500 "Lori ." wrote:
> Hello, I've been having some problematic issues with the install of
> Debian
> 8. I'm trying to do a so called "Dual-Boot" with my Windows 10 dell
> laptop. I've partitioned my disk and shrunk it to 125gb of free
> space. I have a FAT32 usb stic
Michael Fothergill composed on 2017-01-22 14:08 (UTC):
I run a dual boot system with debian, gentoo and windows 10 on
different partitions.
Dual means "two":
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dual
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dual
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dual?s=t
1.of, r
Hi Pascal,
On 28/11/16 12:48, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 27/11/2016 à 21:02, Jan Bakuwel a écrit :
>>
>> On 26/11/16 11:01, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>>
>>> When embedding is not possible, the core image is stored as a regular
>>> file in /boot/grub. Then /boot/grub must be on the same drive as the
Le 27/11/2016 à 21:02, Jan Bakuwel a écrit :
On 26/11/16 11:01, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
When embedding is not possible, the core image is stored as a regular
file in /boot/grub. Then /boot/grub must be on the same drive as the
boot image. However blocklists are not reliable with files, because
Hi Pascal,
Thanks for responding.
On 26/11/16 11:01, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 25/11/2016 à 19:31, Jan Bakuwel a écrit :
>>
>> For reasons beyond my understanding grub complains about being
>> installed in a partition instead of the MBR ("embedding is not
>> supported and a BAD idea", yet it wo
Le 25/11/2016 à 19:31, Jan Bakuwel a écrit :
For reasons beyond my understanding grub complains about being
installed in a partition instead of the MBR ("embedding is not
supported and a BAD idea", yet it works fine).
The GRUB BIOS boot loader is split off in three main parts :
- the boot imag
Thank you Hans, Alexandre, and Jan for your quick response.
update-grub2 has enabled booting to all (2) of my OSes :-)
Now the prospect of massive, messy recovery is gone. I like Jan's idea
of a small "boot/rescue" OS, especially if it could be on a USB flash
drive. Something to work on later.
Hi Dan, Hans,
> On 26/11/2016, at 04:51, Hans wrote:
>
> Am Freitag, 25. November 2016, 10:15:09 CET schrieb Dan Norton:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I have a similar problem with Kali-Linux and Debian. Everytime I upgrade a
> kernel in kali-linux (which is on second drive), it overwrites grub on the
>
Hello,
You can try, running in terminal:
sudo update-grub2
Le 25/11/2016 à 16:15, Dan Norton a écrit :
> Net install noticed that Windows 7 was present, said it would provide
> a choice to select it in the boot menu, but failed to do that. The
> boot menu has Debian Jessie and the advanced boot o
Am Freitag, 25. November 2016, 10:15:09 CET schrieb Dan Norton:
Hi Dan,
I have a similar problem with Kali-Linux and Debian. Everytime I upgrade a
kernel in kali-linux (which is on second drive), it overwrites grub on the
first drive.
My solution: I am booting "super-grub-disk-2" (google for
Stefan.schultz19.5.1991 composed on 2016-09-05 15:41 (UTC-0400):
Thank you Felix for your very informative answers. Being new to open
source, I realize from your explanations that I have a lot to learn, like
not allowing anything to install in the MBR, and taking steps to minimise
the desruption
REPLY
Thank you Felix for your very informative answers. Being new to open source, I
realize from your explanations that I have a lot to learn, like not allowing
anything to install in the MBR, and taking steps to minimise the desruption and
ease the recovery. At the moment I have no idea how!
Hello Debian support,
David, thank you for your informative answer, and your advice. I installed the
grub-customizer PPA in Ubuntu for version 16.04. I had tried the previous
version for 14.04. Interestingly both versions only see Ubuntu and Memtest 86
and not Debian, even though the box is che
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Stefan.schultz19.5.1991 wrote:
Hello Debian support team,
If you haven't figured it out yet, there is no such thing on this
mailing list.
We are a bunch of users of Debian who try to help each other.
In principle, at least. Most of us.
Brian at asked a question about m
On Fri 02 Sep 2016 at 10:53:47 -0400, Stefan.schultz19.5.1991 wrote:
> Hello Debian support team,
Hello Stefan,
The rest of the team are out of the office relaxing in the Northern
Hemisphere Autumn Sun, so it is just me. I expect they will appear when
it gets cooler and they start to feel guilty
Hello Debian support team,
Brian at asked a question about my question 2.
> 2/ Is there a Debian approved GRUB boot customizer? I can't find one
> mentioned anywhere.
Please say what you mean by "boot customizer"?
I did find a GRUB customizer at this link...
http://www.linuxserve.com/2015/05
Stefan.schultz19.5.1991 composed on 2016-09-01 14:30 (UTC-0400):
Dual boot. Ubuntu update removes Debian GRUB.
Last week I installed a few updates to Ubuntu 14.04. It installed the updates
and then froze whilst installing Ununtu's grub. After the re-boot, Ubuntu was
the only choice of O/S.
On Thu 01 Sep 2016 at 14:30:58 -0400, Stefan.schultz19.5.1991 wrote:
> Dual boot. Ubuntu update removes Debian GRUB.
>
> Hello Debian support,
Hello Stefan. There is only me in the office at the moment but the Night
Shift should be along later.
> Last week I installed a few updates to Ubuntu 14
On Sat 07 May 2016 at 20:13:01 +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 7 May 2016 11:47:24 -0700
> Gary Roach wrote:
>
> > On 05/07/2016 10:51 AM, Brian wrote:
> > > On Sat 07 May 2016 at 09:24:58 -0700, HP Garcia wrote:
> > >
> > >> I’m curious if you can setup Debian to dual boot with Windows 10.
> >
On Sat, 7 May 2016 11:47:24 -0700
Gary Roach wrote:
> On 05/07/2016 10:51 AM, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 07 May 2016 at 09:24:58 -0700, HP Garcia wrote:
> >
> >> I’m curious if you can setup Debian to dual boot with Windows 10.
> > Yes, you can. Are you curious enough to read the Debian installa
On Sat 07 May 2016 at 11:47:24 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> On 05/07/2016 10:51 AM, Brian wrote:
> >On Sat 07 May 2016 at 09:24:58 -0700, HP Garcia wrote:
> >
> >>I’m curious if you can setup Debian to dual boot with Windows 10.
> >Yes, you can. Are you curious enough to read the Debian installation
On 05/07/2016 10:51 AM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 07 May 2016 at 09:24:58 -0700, HP Garcia wrote:
I’m curious if you can setup Debian to dual boot with Windows 10.
Yes, you can. Are you curious enough to read the Debian installation
manual and search the Debian wiki?
A piece of advice. Don't set
On Sat 07 May 2016 at 09:24:58 -0700, HP Garcia wrote:
> I’m curious if you can setup Debian to dual boot with Windows 10.
Yes, you can. Are you curious enough to read the Debian installation
manual and search the Debian wiki?
On 04/14/2013 09:04 AM, Charles Blair wrote:
Is there a safe way to write, from linux to the windows
part of a dual-boot system?
Assuming the version of Windows is XP or better: NTFS-3G can mount a
Windows filesystem read-write with no issue.
Conrad
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:49:20PM -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> Trying to dual boot OSX and Wheezy on a late 2008 Macbook running
> Mountain Lion. Following steps found on the web, I first created an
Quite unclear here what exactly are you doing ... normal bootcamp or
EFI ...
> empty partiti
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:48 AM, David Banks wrote:
> On 29/03/12 17:23, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip no obvious problem]
>>>
>>> Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get
On 29/03/12 21:41, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>> I have successfully installed both distros and wiped grub from the MBR
>> of the second disk using dd.
>
> ..2 words; Big Mistake.
>
> ..you wanna put grub on _both_ disks, that way your worst scenario
> becomes the grub command line, rather than some hun
On 29/03/12 17:33, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU
> wrote:
>> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote:
>>
>> [snip no obvious problem]
>>
>> Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more
>> suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend)
On 29/03/12 17:23, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU
> wrote:
>> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote:
>>
>> [snip no obvious problem]
>>
>> Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more
>> suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend)
On Jo, 29 mar 12, 09:24:30, David Banks wrote:
>
> I have successfully installed both distros and wiped grub from the MBR
> of the second disk using dd. kFreeBSD boots fine, however I have had
> trouble getting a working Grub menu entry for Squeeze. I am using Grub
> 1.99-18.
Possible workaroun
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:24:30 +0100, David wrote in message
:
> Hey all,
>
> I am trying to set up a dual-boot machine with Debian kFreeBSD (sid)
> and Debian Linux (squeeze). The machine has two hard disks, the
> first disk has kFreeBSD on it and I want to use this disk to boot
> both OSs. Sque
On Jo, 29 mar 12, 15:38:04, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> Could it be, that currently the GRUB from the Linux side is used?
Or maybe that grub in the MBR is trying to use the modules from the
Linux side? That might explain the errors (version mismatch, since the
Linux side is squeeze not sid).
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote:
>
> [snip no obvious problem]
>
> Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more
> suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend) you contact the
> kFreeBSD port maintaine
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote:
>
> [snip no obvious problem]
>
> Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more
> suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend) you contact the
> kFreeBSD port maintaine
On 29/03/12 14:38, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> grub> search --file /boot/grub/core.img
>> hd1,msdos1
>
> Thats strange. I thought GRUB was installed on the kFreeBSD hd0.
Yeah, I confirmed that these files are definitely present on the
kFreeBSD partition, so I have no idea why GRUB can't see the
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb David Banks:
> On 29/03/12 12:57, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >> However, when I boot this I get this error three times:
> >> error: file not found.
> >
> > What is before the file not found? Does it give a hint as to which
> > file it did not found? Or what
Hi Martin,
On 29/03/12 12:57, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> However, when I boot this I get this error three times:
>>
>> error: file not found.
>
> What is before the file not found? Does it give a hint as to which file it
> did not found? Or what it was trying to do before printing the error
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb David Banks:
> menuentry 'squeeze' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu
> --class os {
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd1,msdos1)'
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet
> initrd /boot
On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote:
[snip no obvious problem]
Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more
suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend) you contact the
kFreeBSD port maintainers (debian-bsd?) or file a bug against grub.
Kind regards,
Andrei
On 29/03/12 11:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Does the ext2 module exist on the kFreeBSD partition (wherever the other
> grub modules are, presumably /boot/grub/)?
ls -l /boot/grub/ext2.mod shows that the file is there, with a size of
5892 bytes.
> Is the MBR grub image in sync with the modules (do
On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:19:23, David Banks wrote:
>
> menuentry 'Squeeze' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd1,msdos1)'
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.
On 29/03/12 10:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Please attach your full /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Here is the /boot/grub/grub.cfg. I am installing it with "grub-install
/dev/ad0" in kFreeBSD, which completes successfully.
Correction: I only get the "file not found" error repeated twice now.
Cheers,
David
On 29/03/12 10:38, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Do you have your kernel and initramfs inside the directory /boot on the
> root filesystem, or do you have a separate boot partition?
The kernel and initrd are inside /boot on the root filesystem, no
separate boot partition.
Cheers,
David
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:24:30AM +0100, David Banks wrote:
> menuentry 'squeeze' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu
> --class os {
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd1,msdos1)'
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet
> i
On Jo, 29 mar 12, 09:24:30, David Banks wrote:
...
> I tried to manually add a menu entry for squeeze as such, within
> /etc/grub.d/40_custom:
Please attach your full /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:26:12AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
>> > If you state as you seem to be , that Microsoft don't enter into grubby
>> > strategies of monopoly control, it ain't me t
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:26:12AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> >
> > If you state as you seem to be , that Microsoft don't enter into grubby
> > strategies of monopoly control, it ain't me that looks 'silly at best'.
>
> Everyone wants to be a mono
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> On 2 September 2011 02:30, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Heddle Weaver
>> wrote:
>> > On 1 September 2011 13:09, Lennart Sorensen
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If your windows install uses the entire drive for one partiti
On Friday 02 September 2011 00:28:50 Heddle Weaver wrote:
> If you state as you seem to be , that Microsoft don't enter into grubby
> strategies of monopoly control, it ain't me that looks 'silly at best'.
You seem deliberately to twist what people say in order to have a go at them.
Tom didn't s
On 2 September 2011 01:00, Lisi wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2011 10:23:11 Heddle Weaver wrote:
> > I've already said I've been able to do it in the past, but it's not
> > happening this time.
>
> Perhaps if you didn't break the threading people could follow you better.
> You
> sai
On 2 September 2011 01:13, Bruno Martins wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 10:23 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> > On 1 September 2011 13:33, jeremy jozwik
> wrote:
> >
> >> just got my duel boot machine running. works great with xp installed
> >> then debian with grub. works very great.
> >>
> >
> > Well, than
On 2 September 2011 02:30, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Heddle Weaver
> wrote:
> > On 1 September 2011 13:09, Lennart Sorensen <
> lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> If your windows install uses the entire drive for one partition, then
> >> there isn't really
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> On 1 September 2011 13:09, Lennart Sorensen
> wrote:
>>
>> If your windows install uses the entire drive for one partition, then
>> there isn't really anything the installer can do for you other than to
>> wipe out windows.
>>
>> If on the
On 09/01/2011 10:23 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> On 1 September 2011 13:33, jeremy jozwik wrote:
>
>> just got my duel boot machine running. works great with xp installed
>> then debian with grub. works very great.
>>
>
> Well, thanks, but it doesn't really tell me much does it?
> I've already sai
On Thursday 01 September 2011 10:23:11 Heddle Weaver wrote:
> I've already said I've been able to do it in the past, but it's not
> happening this time.
Perhaps if you didn't break the threading people could follow you better. You
said nothing about previous occasions in the mail to which Jeremy
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> Well, thanks, but it doesn't really tell me much does it?
> I've already said I've been able to do it in the past, but it's not
> happening this time.
> Perhaps if you read a post before you replied to it?
i did, you were only whining about w
On 1 September 2011 13:33, jeremy jozwik wrote:
> just got my duel boot machine running. works great with xp installed
> then debian with grub. works very great.
>
Well, thanks, but it doesn't really tell me much does it?
I've already said I've been able to do it in the past, but it's not
happen
just got my duel boot machine running. works great with xp installed
then debian with grub. works very great.
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On 1 September 2011 13:09, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
If your windows install uses the entire drive for one partition, then
> there isn't really anything the installer can do for you other than to
> wipe out windows.
>
> If on the other hand you have windows on a partition that does not use
> the en
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Tim Channon wrote:
> michael wrote:
>
>> i've just used the default and expertgui debian net install and there
>> is an option for manually controlling the partitioning process
>
> Yes *is* there but perhaps not clearly enough.
>
> Maybe this wi
michael wrote:
i've just used the default and expertgui debian net install and there is
an option for manually controlling the partitioning process
Yes *is* there but perhaps not clearly enough.
Maybe this will be useful information: -
You can play around with the partitioner, try variou
On 25 Mar 2008, at 17:55, donald daniel wrote:
I would like to install both Debian and windows-xp on
a single IDE hard drive using the debian 4.0r1 install
cdrom if possible. I already had such an installation
with debian 3. I wanted to leave windows alone and
install debian 4 from scratch usi
In my opinion the Windows bootloader is also fine!
2007/6/27, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
* Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070627 07:21]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian. I've seen the guides, but
>> they all recommend that users have Windows XP ins
* Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070627 07:21]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian. I've seen the guides, but
>> they all recommend that users have Windows XP installed first, and
>> then install Debian. This allows you to set it up with the default
>> Debian ins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian. I've seen the guides, but
they all recommend that users have Windows XP installed first, and
then install Debian. This allows you to set it up with the default
Debian installation to use GRUB / etc. and dual boot.
However,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the advice so far. So the only issue that will arise is
the bootloader will appear to disappear? Once that is fixed,
everything will be working correctly?
Yes. The only thing you have to worry is that you install Windows on the
first partition of the first
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian.? I've seen the guides, but
they all recommend that users have Windows XP installed first, and
then install Debian.? This allows you to set it up with the default
Debian installation to use GRUB / etc. and dual boot.?
Another po
Chris Lale wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to dual boot windows XP and Debian.? I've seen the guides, but they all recommend that users have Windows XP installed first, and then install Debian.? This allows you to set it up with the default Debian installation to use GRUB /
It is certainly possible to proceed that way. There is one problem: as soon as
you install Windows XP your MBR will be changed, so it seems as though your
Debian is missing. Of course, it you have installed Debian on a seperate disk
it is still there, only not bootable.
There are several solu
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