Re: OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Doug
On 01/14/2016 11:45 PM, Tod Merley wrote: potential issues: mbr uefi - many ways to solve none easy. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Cummings mailto:cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote: On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenov

Re: OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Tod Merley
potential issues: mbr uefi - many ways to solve none easy. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with > > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual bo

Re: OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual boot with Fedora, and > just recently upgraded them to Fedora 23. Never had any issues with the > installation of the Fedo

OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual boot with Fedora, and just recently upgraded them to Fedora 23. Never had any issues with the installation of the Fedora or doing updates. I wanted to check out the Windows

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 23:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 18:44 +, Ian Malone wrote: >> I think gparted should be able to do this for you, first move the >> start of the linux partition and filesystem towards the end of the >> disc (you'll have to shrink that filesystem, a

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Doug
On 01/06/2016 12:16 PM, jd1008 wrote: by catenation to a partition on an external drive. I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition resizer? I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and and restore from backup

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 18:44 +, Ian Malone wrote: > I think gparted should be able to do this for you, first move the > start of the linux partition and filesystem towards the end of the > disc (you'll have to shrink that filesystem, also done in gparted) > and then move it to create free space

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:49 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > sda3 is the fedora boot partition and formatted and mounted as ext4. You can shrink ext4 filesystem using resize2fs (assuming it has enough unused space of course). The fs has to be unmounted of course, so you may want to do it in single-user mode

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 17:49, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 01/06/2016 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> by catenation to a partition on an external drive. >>> >>> I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could >>> if necessary; i

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread jd1008
On 01/06/2016 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: by catenation to a partition on an external drive. I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition resizer? I know I can back

Re: OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 10:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > by catenation to a partition on an external drive. > > I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could > if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition > resizer? > > I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and >

OT: On dual boot system - need to expand windoze partition ...

2016-01-06 Thread jd1008
by catenation to a partition on an external drive. I do not want to shrink the fedora partition, but I could if necessary; in which case does fedora have a partition resizer? I know I can back up the fedora partition, resize it and and restore from backup. But that could take many hours of down

Re: /boot/efi in a dual boot system

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 31, 2014, at 8:50 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > As I type this, I'm installing Fedora 20 on a UEFI system which already > has CentOS 7 (and nothing else). > > Should the two systems share /boot/efi? Ideally yes, although it's not required by the UEFI spec. > > As I understand it, t

/boot/efi in a dual boot system

2014-08-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
As I type this, I'm installing Fedora 20 on a UEFI system which already has CentOS 7 (and nothing else). Should the two systems share /boot/efi? As I understand it, the answer is yes: /boot/efi is universal on a machine. It is where the firmware goes to load things. Not just OS bootloader: man

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-18 Thread Javier Perez
Does any one have experience with a common /boot for a dual OS system? On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > On 2014-04-17 01:31, Javier Perez wrote: > >> Hi Arthur >> That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home >> and soft-linking the Data partiti

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-17 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-04-17 01:31, Javier Perez wrote: Hi Arthur That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home and soft-linking the Data partition. I wonder should I set /var on the HDD to save wear and tear on the SSD? JP On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Arthur Dent wrote:

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-17 Thread Javier Perez
Hi Arthur That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home and soft-linking the Data partition. I wonder should I set /var on the HDD to save wear and tear on the SSD? JP On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier P

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-17 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD > > > /dev/sda1 = /boot, about 1G > > /dev/sda2 = / Ubuntu 50G aprox > > /dev/sda3 = / Fedora 50G aprox > > /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical > for the moment)

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-16 Thread Edward M
On 4/16/2014 10:46 PM, Javier Perez wrote: It is not a bad idea per se. The thing is that the reason I installed Ubuntu is because at some time (I think it was Fedora 16 or 17, don't remember now) Fedora could not set the right resolution for my display, 1920x1080, but Ubuntu indeed could do i

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-16 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
Hi again: Well your scheme is not bad. 50 GB for each OS is a lot, even if you don't store a lot of information in logs for run a server or something like that. I never use to install the \boot in a separate partition. I install the root (\) of each one inside it's own partition and the GRUB do th

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-16 Thread Javier Perez
It is not a bad idea per se. The thing is that the reason I installed Ubuntu is because at some time (I think it was Fedora 16 or 17, don't remember now) Fedora could not set the right resolution for my display, 1920x1080, but Ubuntu indeed could do it without problem. Virtualizing it would defeat

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-16 Thread Javier Perez
My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD /dev/sda1 = /boot, about 1G /dev/sda2 = / Ubuntu 50G aprox /dev/sda3 = / Fedora 50G aprox /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical for the moment) /dev/sdb1= /MyData (to be available under both OS Then for both Ubuntu and Fedo

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-16 Thread Edward M
On 4/16/2014 8:49 PM, Javier Perez wrote: Hi I need some advice here regarding partitioning my home system. My home system is a triple boot system: Windows 2K, Fedora 20 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I have three disks, one devoted to each operating system. The first disk has two partitions, one for th

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-16 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
Hello: Well I have few experience with dual systems, and I don't understand your idea. You can have a SSD Hard Disk wherein you install one or more OS. You don't need to have a lot of physical hard disk for that. In fact in only one you can get two OS doing the right partions in a common hard disk

Dual Boot System

2014-04-16 Thread Javier Perez
Hi I need some advice here regarding partitioning my home system. My home system is a triple boot system: Windows 2K, Fedora 20 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I have three disks, one devoted to each operating system. The first disk has two partitions, one for the OS (win2k), the rest for data to be shared w