On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 11:23:10AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I have a few tiny computers with Windows 8.x. They came with 2G of > RAM and 32G of m.2 SATA SSDs. (A raft of systems were produced with > these specs since the Windows licensing fees were essentially waived > when these limits were observed.) > > 2G RAM + 32G HDD is actually a useful size for normal Linux distros. > But there's not enough room for dual booting with Windows. > > I wanted to update to Windows 10 > > (1) before the deadline for free updates > > (2) because I could then wipe Windows and install linux without losing > the ability to go back to licensed Windows. Note that the Windows > 10 license authentication is based on Microsoft cloud records but > previous versions require a magic code (that is no longer printed > on the device) (I recently found out that it is in the ROM of > these machines and can be discovered from Linux). > > For the life of me, I could not get one of the machines to update. > The update process kept making disk demands that were impossible > to fulfill on a 32G disk. I've been trying off and on for months. > I've spent a couple of hours on the phone with HP and Microsoft support. > > I just solved the problem. I had installed an extra 8G of RAM in the > machine. Once I removed it, Windows was happy to update. > > There was NO hint of this in any of the diagnostics. None of the > support folks brought it up. > > Sheesh. Every time I muck with Windows I find new reasons not to > touch it.
I wonder if the extra ram meant the default pagefile size got much bigger in order to allow hibernation. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
