Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

2019-06-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
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

Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

2019-06-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
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

Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

2019-06-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
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

Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

2019-06-11 Thread songbird
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

Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

2019-06-10 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

2019-06-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
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)

Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

2019-06-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
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 ??sdb2 8:18 0 1K 0 part ??sdb5