11-20-2015, 06:53 AM
@gold_finger
as always really good useful guidance/pointers...
The NUC was barebones, so he added a M2 NVME SSD and a regular 2.5"HD
I set the BIOS for Legacy & turned off secure boot.
I installed Win7, that was a challenge Win7 does not see NVME drives out of the box.
So had to install to 2nd drive, add 2 MS hotfixes, then "clone" to NVME, So Win7 installed and working.
I had all ready been thinking about pre-partitioning, given what I think/know he will want
disk#1
> Win7 already installed
> / Linux Mint Root(ext4)
> / Linux Lite Root(ext4)
> spare
disk#2
> D:\ already done for Win7
>/home Linux Mint(ext4)
>/home Linux Lite(ext4)
>/mnt/files(NTFS) for mounting in all OS's F:\ for windows and mount it as files for Linux
Given he's got 16GB ram, he runs 2/3 VM's to do various things in, and on reading/research I think swap is not needed,
but it could be added in spare space on disk#1,
either a shared swap between Mint/Lite, but then no hibernation allowed.
or create Extended partition with 2 swap partitions. but 2 X 16GB+ swap files is 32GB+ of potentially wasted disk space.
as always really good useful guidance/pointers...
The NUC was barebones, so he added a M2 NVME SSD and a regular 2.5"HD
I set the BIOS for Legacy & turned off secure boot.
I installed Win7, that was a challenge Win7 does not see NVME drives out of the box.
So had to install to 2nd drive, add 2 MS hotfixes, then "clone" to NVME, So Win7 installed and working.
I had all ready been thinking about pre-partitioning, given what I think/know he will want
disk#1
> Win7 already installed
> / Linux Mint Root(ext4)
> / Linux Lite Root(ext4)
> spare
disk#2
> D:\ already done for Win7
>/home Linux Mint(ext4)
>/home Linux Lite(ext4)
>/mnt/files(NTFS) for mounting in all OS's F:\ for windows and mount it as files for Linux
Given he's got 16GB ram, he runs 2/3 VM's to do various things in, and on reading/research I think swap is not needed,
but it could be added in spare space on disk#1,
either a shared swap between Mint/Lite, but then no hibernation allowed.
or create Extended partition with 2 swap partitions. but 2 X 16GB+ swap files is 32GB+ of potentially wasted disk space.
Upgrades WIP 2.6 to 2.8 - (6 X 2.6 to 2.8 completed on: 20/02/16 All O.K )
Linux Lite 3.0 Humming on a ASRock N3070 Mobo ~ btrfs RAID 10 Install on 4 Disks
Computers Early days:
ZX Spectrum(1982) , HP-150 MS-DOS(1983) , Amstrad CPC464(1984) , BBC Micro B+64(1985) , My First PC HP-Vectra(1987)
Linux Lite 3.0 Humming on a ASRock N3070 Mobo ~ btrfs RAID 10 Install on 4 Disks
Computers Early days:
ZX Spectrum(1982) , HP-150 MS-DOS(1983) , Amstrad CPC464(1984) , BBC Micro B+64(1985) , My First PC HP-Vectra(1987)