On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 02:30:50 +0000
"'William Pate' via qubes-users" <qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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>On Sunday, September 23, 2018 8:56 PM, Patrick <patr...@runthisproject.com>
>wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I had already istalled 4.0 on my laptop and decided to upgrade a workhorse
>> desktop running 3.0. So I just boot to a usb stick with a validated 4.0 iso.
>> Actually, that's the first tip, make sure you're using the "dd" option when
>> creating the iso (like the doc says anyway). That made a big difference in
>> just getting the boot right.
>>
>> I loaded it, had issues, tweaked some things, wasted time here and there but
>> what what worked well was:
>>
>> 1 - boot to and loading a disk partioner like https://gparted.org/
>> - then I just removed all existing partitions.
>>
>> 2 - booting to and load a disk wipe program like killdisk:
>> http://www.killdisk.com/
>> I don't know, I felt like there was just something existing on the disk that
>> was causing a problem, and when I erased and wiped the drive and then did
>> another 4.0 install it worked perfectly, no issues at all.
>>
>> PS - I had issues trying to get dban working, for some reason.
>>
>> Hope that helps some folks.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
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>My fresh installation of Qubes 4.0 was similarly trouble-free. I put it on a
>Dell Latitude E7240 laptop. It took a while. I only partitioned the disk --
>now to just figure out how to extend Qubes' partition over Windows'. Oh, and
>more RAM would be nice. (I jumped straight from no-Linux-knowledge to Qubes.
>It's taking a while to learn.)
>
>Next up: Lenovo W520.
>
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>
>
>William Pate
>willp...@pm.me
>512-947-3311
>www.wopate.com
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Kinda like Ross Perot and Donald Trump's political careers...start by running
for President.
Just get a good grasp of the architecture of Qubes...separate programs from
data with templates...separate tasks with appVMs...restrict network exposure to
ONLY the tasks which require it...it works very well as long as you keep that
in mind when are working with it.
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