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 everything as it is, shrink the 1.8TB NTSF partition, and use the free space for /, /boot, and /home. Is it safe to say that writing to the RAID partition writes to both the HDD and the SSD? I'll have to find a description of that, too. Thanks, Bill On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Josh Blagden <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 2:12 AM, Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Bill Harris <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> Besides, I think my concern comes ahead of that: do I need to do > anything > >> special to prepare for Intel RST (fake RAID)? If I knew that there > were no > >> problems ahead with that feature, then I could just start the installer, > >> choosing to repartition for dual-boot or for only Linux, if I wished. > > > > I have no experience with this feature, but this wiki page might help?: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid > > > > > > > > Bjørn > > > -- Bill Harris http://makingsense.facilitatedsystems.com/
