I have no idea how Dell partitions but if you have a / and /home (much
better setup) then simply remove all of your "hidden" files in /home and
install Debian from a Debian Live with non-free firmware ISO. This will
make sure all your hardware is supported by the firmware included with
the kernel.
Some of that doesn't meet the Debian definition of "free" so they remove
it from their official install media.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.5.0+nonfree/
I assume you are on a 64bit box but that link includes the 32bit images
too.
Should go fine. If you want to resize some partitions I would do that
before installing using gparted in the Live Session. Just be sure to
tell the installer to not format the /home partition.
Backing up your data is highly recommended. I have never needed that
backup using the Debian installer. But you never loose any important
data if you don't back it up. Because it wasn't important enough to
back up. Back it up. Call it insurance.
On 07/26/2016 08:14 AM, Diego Martinez wrote:
I would also add that I think it would be best to install just on that
partition that the ubuntu lives. the Dell team usually has some nice
recovery and other partitions I think are nice to keep.
Diego
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Nicolás Ortega Froysa
<nicolas.ortega.fro...@gmail.com
<mailto:nicolas.ortega.fro...@gmail.com>> wrote:
If you're going to be doing a complete reinstall then I don't see why
keep the Ubuntu partitioning. Unless you like the way it's partitioned
(in terms of swap, if it uses a /home partition, etc.) just do a
reinstall with a Debian disc. It shouldn't be that difficult a
process.
In my case, considering how messy that file partitioning looks, I
would
do a complete reinstall with Debian, keep a swap partition, and that's
about it (maybe a home partition).
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Vesta wrote:
> Dell Inspiron 15 3542 Intel i3-4005U comes with Ubuntu OS. I
want install Debian in place of Ubuntu: will be better completely
format hard drive when install Debian, or it make sense keep
existing disk paritioning structure and install Debian into Ubuntu
partition (Partition 3)? Hard drive have 5 partitions:
>
> DellUtility, Partition 1 (367MB), FAT
> OS, Partition 2 (3.2GB), FAT
> Filesystem, Partition 3, (488GB), Ext4
> Extended, Partition 4 (8.4GB)
> Swap, Partition 5, (8GB)
> Free space (1.1MB)
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