On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:02 Tom Browder wrote:
>
> I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which has
> no installed OS on it.
Again, thanks to all who offered help.
I have my new Zareason laptop up and running! Basic specs:
UltraLap 6440 i7
Processor: i7-8550U
8
On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 12/04/2019 à 22:25, Thomas D Dial a écrit :
> > I let the installer partition the USB key that was the install
> > target
> > and picked LVM, but specified distinct /, /usr/, /var, /home, and
> > swap
>
> Why did you create a distinct
Le 12/04/2019 à 22:25, Thomas D Dial a écrit :
I let the installer partition the USB key that was the install target
and picked LVM, but specified distinct /, /usr/, /var, /home, and swap
Why did you create a distinct volume for /usr ?
partitions and left some empty space within the LVM
On 4/11/19 5:02 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop
which has no installed OS on it.
It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty
bay where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
I would like to use a live image on
David Wright wrote:
> Your figures are virtually meaningless without any sort of breakdown
> even into what's system and what's your documents.
>
yeah yeah ... use your imagination. Sqldeveloper, couple of virtual
machines, some installation packages each of which is 1-2GB and so one
Software
On Fri 12 Apr 2019 at 21:42:51 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
>
> > We have a laptop that was used with windows for just under four
> > years. Main applications are Office for excel/word/powerpoint,
> > Outlook for email, Coreldraw for publication figures. Disk usage
> > is
On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 20:01 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 4/11/19 5:02 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop
> > which
> > has no installed OS on it.
> >
> > It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty
> > bay
>
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> A lot of people are still using cached knowledge from pre-jessie days.
no you know at least one in the context of fdisk.
I don't know why but I got the impression it does not understand GPT. Just 2
months ago I had to partition 5TB RAID5 disk and fdisk did not work.
David Wright wrote:
> We have a laptop that was used with windows for just under four
> years. Main applications are Office for excel/word/powerpoint,
> Outlook for email, Coreldraw for publication figures. Disk usage
> is approximately 90GB, of which the user's own files are 45GB,
> in a
Le 12/04/2019 à 16:09, Tom Browder a écrit :
M.2 SSD:
120GB M.2 SSD (included)
Samsung SSD 860 EVO
==
V-NAND SSD
SATA 6 Gb/s
size: 1 Tb
my plan is to use the small disk for Win 10 and the other for Debian
If the small M.2 SSD has a NVMe or AHCI interface, it may be faster
On Fri 12 Apr 2019 at 10:05:58 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> No Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large
> >> disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both
> >
> > I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging.
>
deloptes composed on 2019-04-12 10:05 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>>> No Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large
>>> disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both
>> I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging.
> You always
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:01 PM David Christensen
wrote:
> Which model zareason laptop?
> Which make, model, form factor, and interface 120 GB SSD?
> Which form factor and interface Samsung EVO 860 1 TB SSD?
> How much RAM?
> Make and model WiFi interface?
David, here are the specs on the
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:07:04AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
> > Why not ? Current versions support GPT.
>
> Thank you my fault - I have missed something
It changed after wheezy.
Wheezy's man page says:
fdisk does not understand GUID partition tables (GPTs)
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Why not ? Current versions support GPT.
Thank you my fault - I have missed something
Felix Miata wrote:
>> No Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large
>> disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both
>
> I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging.
You always want to arge - but tell me how many applications or how
On 4/11/19 5:02 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which
has no installed OS on it.
It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay
where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
Which model zareason laptop?
Le 11/04/2019 à 20:47, deloptes a écrit :
fdisk is not suitable for GPT
Why not ? Current versions support GPT.
deloptes composed on 2019-04-11 20:47 (UTC+0200):
> Tom Browder wrote:
>> Given that I'm starting with two clean drives, my plan is to use the small
>> disk for Win 10 and the other for Debian and maybe have a small partition
>> to experiment with a BSD OS.
> No Win10 will not be happy with
Tom Browder wrote:
> I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which
> has no installed OS on it.
>
> It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay
> where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
>
> I would like to use a live image on a
Hi,
Tom Browder wrote:
> As I
> understand it, I believe I can just copy the Debian CD live iso image file
> onto the USB and it will be found and booted from fine.
Not necessarily. The question is: found by what ?
The computer's firmware (BIOS or EFI, i assume) will ignore such an ISO 9660
I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which
has no installed OS on it.
It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay
where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
I would like to use a live image on a large USB for preparing the disks
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