| brent timothy saner on 21 Dec 2015 23:00:44 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] DUAL Booting With "Modern" UEFI & SDD |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/22/2015 12:42 AM, Ira Laefsky wrote: > > > I have used Ubuntu extensively and am considering buying a new PC based > upon the ASUS X99 USB3.1 > > containing a 256 GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO as well as 2 2TB Seagate HDD(s) > I need Ubuntu for my research, but unfortunately also have to use > Windows 10 (preinstalled) for certain administrative and other functions > > I have recently had the bad experience of losing a HP All-in-One > installing Ubuntu 15.10 (dual boot) according to the instructions in the > Ubuntu/Canonical Forum and am very apprehensive about purchasing a new > PC workstation with UEFI and SSD and installing Ubuntu Dual-Boot. Could > you provide me with accurate pointers or advice on these > > New BIOS/UEFI and SDD technologies, and the terrors of Modern Dual-Boot. > > I would be grateful for any advice. For starters, make a full DD image of your disk and store it somewhere safe before you do anything. That being said.. I usually use Arch, which has some pretty good documentation[0] for doing the partitioning manually. However, you'll probably want to read this[1], this[2]. and this[3]. Should get you started on the right path. Essentially you'll probably want to boot up gparted (can be found on SysRescCD, and probably on the ubuntu live dvd) and shrink the windows partition. then create a new partition for your ubuntu / there (the ubuntu installer has an option for manually selecting which partition to install to). Then you just need to add a UEFI entry with efibootmgr[4] if the ubuntu installer doesn't do it automatically. When installing, make sure you tell your board to boot the CD/USB/whatever in UEFI mode. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dual_boot_with_Windows#Bootloader_UEFI_vs_BIOS_limitations [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/236787/install-ubuntu-next-to-windows-8-uefi-dual-boot [2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#efibootmgr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWePTGAAoJEIwATC+TSB9r2E4P/AlkJaznlKhpo6c4cKnjjOh6 U2eUW93PVNU2zk3+UWZYPa24c4iBVRMuICgbiMaWYdzRhC4jkywtOUvBb7oZ01V5 OVitoPrNPSpHGWvSpkXPcM7yW5RsoJ5XyHpRM5SOi7p8Shy6SEjKHjWOLU5RSBVU iWes26JyAYRIuovooxUTHDGVJws+G+qGhxFKZS1XRbfozkYjuUr/+Rkc1WA/QZMQ M5xtwaL79HS9kWtkgPJLD7jHomT3tvNgEUK++FVA+qDUmjuNgToSNvT78dOdxEiX g/1lZSHaslzSiOiNGQNyKGYNI/KuBG3oAF2C1ZlDA1Wry026DtP6vxkJDq94/8TC p/FCfj3OqIL5mJPgKxSyjhS2m3IOgtfVTDTyOTz/VCvd+Tyl46GFzlL5vjyIiyO+ OUVKC8XjOoASeNEzv66SOBKB5sMt657uQ1r1dxiKOpPUdU7M+K3E3a1joLypXLTs NtyFvJs3Yf3YyYN+7BOqJhWmKA+hsf65Mo6WndY0Tyj8zArxvqowSK6OiMpZUnXw mLPHpHiUsdUkfEtmMGAmGMoemF5h6jqx8nEPVghQLPC9aMQ+4DBVdIZH+XqYmQBR ZjAWdJE6FmVuwf0+EcBa0qbuX/7/GxAwqrXc8w4bL6s0icRz3YHGz3F5Xvf9vmcY LSRbFq3GPxrxrGz3pvI5 =UJ0b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug