On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:41:37PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> I found that Partition Wizard[1] Live CD by Minitool, can
> handle all of the issues in shrinking a windows partition to
> create space for another OS.
Thanks for the h/t. Reminds me of Partition Magic from years
ago. Boy did I get a
Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell with Win7 already on
> its 160g sata hard drive.
>
> I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot machine. I only want wheezy
> on this for now.
>
> Question: can I entrust to the Debian installer the task of repartit
On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:30:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> Yup. They are like that.
Dell *servers* can be bought with empty disks (no OS). No MS tax, and there's
no chance of computer fan(s) emitting MS bits and polluting the room.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 04:40:47PM -0400, ja...@jamestechnotes.com wrote:
> I acquired a Dell Dimension E510 a few months ago. 2G ram 250G
> sata drive. I installed wheezy without any issues. It is
> running fine as an XBMC media box.
Ah. All is not dark and gloomy! Thank you for that positive
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:30:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I was playing with the role of paranoid, sorry.
Paranoid always works for me. But never apologize. The Canadians
take it as a sign of weakness.
> The fact is that Microsoft does not make it easy to convert
> old Dells to benefici
On Friday, March 27, 2015 4:30pm, "Paul E Condon"
said:
> On 20150326_2355-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>
>>
>> > ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in
>> > a hidden partition on HD...
>>
>> Now, see? Tha
On 20150326_2355-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
>
> > ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in
> > a hidden partition on HD...
>
> Now, see? That's some hardcore M$ crap right there! Thas what
> I'm talkin 'bou
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:54 PM, David Christensen <
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2015 04:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
>> Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell
>>> with Win7 already on its 160g sata hard drive.
>>> I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot
>
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:55:26PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
>
> > ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in
> > a hidden partition on HD...
>
> Now, see? That's some hardcore M$ crap right there! Thas wha
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in
> a hidden partition on HD...
Now, see? That's some hardcore M$ crap right there! Thas what
I'm talkin 'bout!
> To get rid of this hidden partition, you will have to
On 20150326_1551-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell with Win7 already on
> its 160g sata hard drive.
>
> I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot machine. I only want wheezy
> on this for now.
>
> Question: can I entrust to the Debian install
On 03/26/2015 04:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell
with Win7 already on its 160g sata hard drive.
I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot
machine. I only want wheezy on this for now.
I hated dual-boot -- getting it working was painful eno
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell
> with Win7 already on its 160g sata hard drive.
>
> I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot
> machine. I only want wheezy on this for now.
Make a Restore disk of W7 anyway. Get the codes
Yes, all tools you need to formatting is included in the iso.
/M
On 26 Mar 2015 21:03, "Bob Bernstein" wrote:
> Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell with Win7 already on
> its 160g sata hard drive.
>
> I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot machine. I only want
> wheezy
Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell
with Win7 already on its 160g sata hard drive.
I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot
machine. I only want wheezy on this for now.
Question: can I entrust to the Debian installer the
task of repartitioning and formatting the HD w
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