Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-09 Thread Sebastian Luna Valero
Thanks All, I am glad to report that Debian 9 was successfully installed on my laptop! Removing Ubuntu at the partitioning stage and installing GRUB on the MBR actually worked. Best regards, Sebastian

Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/07/2017 à 00:30, Fungi4All a écrit : From: jode...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Do you even bother to read other people posts? He wants to install Debian where Ubuntu install is. He wants to replace it. why worry about ubuntu grub if it gets erased intentionally, it doesn't

Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Fungi4All
> From: jode...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Do you even bother to read other people posts? He wants to install > Debian where Ubuntu install is. He wants to replace it. why worry about ubuntu grub if it gets erased intentionally, it doesn't make sense.

Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 08-07-17, Fungi4All wrote: > From: sebastian.luna.val...@gmail.com > > > Great, many thanks for your quick replies! > > Will try that, fingers crossed! > > Don't listen to those ubuntu haters, nothing will happen. > Leave it as is. When debian installs its version of grub > on /dev/sda it

Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Fungi4All
From: sebastian.luna.val...@gmail.com > Great, many thanks for your quick replies! > Will try that, fingers crossed! Don't listen to those ubuntu haters, nothing will happen. Leave it as is. When debian installs its version of grub on /dev/sda it will be in control and provide you boot entries

Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Sebastian Luna Valero
​Great, many thanks for your quick replies! Will try that, fingers crossed!

Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/07/2017 à 20:10, Sebastian Luna Valero a écrit : I have a dual-boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. I am planning to install the latest Debian 9 LTS on the partition where Ubuntu is currently installed. Note that Debian 9 is not yet LTS and won't be before a long time. The

Re: Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Brian
On Sat 08 Jul 2017 at 19:10:23 +0100, Sebastian Luna Valero wrote: > I have a dual-boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. I am > planning to install the latest Debian 9 LTS on the partition where Ubuntu > is currently installed. > > Since grub is already available on the laptop, does

Advice on Debian installation

2017-07-08 Thread Sebastian Luna Valero
Hello, I have a dual-boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. I am planning to install the latest Debian 9 LTS on the partition where Ubuntu is currently installed. Since grub is already available on the laptop, does anyone know what will happy when I install grub again with Debian? Any