05-12-2020, 07:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-20-2020, 05:03 PM by Mike Krall.)
2011-2012 Toshiba Satellite L750D - Windows 7... 4GB RAM... little AMD 2-core... 500GB HDD
Windows disk management shows MBR.
Belarc Advisor finds: Boot Mode: Legacy BIOS in UEFI (Secure Boot not supported)
I've searched BIOS/firmware pages and do not find CSM or any other indication of disk-type switches. It seems like this Hitachi HDD is GPT/UEFI but the firmware limits it to BIOS/MBR. There is no 'Secure Boot's switch. There is a "Normal/Fast" boot switch set "Normal". Nothing else other than an "Enabled" USB Legacy to facilitate using mouse/keyboard not OS supported for USB.
I'm asking so I can install Linux Lite the way I'd like to with least potential for problems... fixings... reinstalls... ???
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What I want to do:
Linux-only machine to be used as backup for other computers, and so Sarah can learn a little Linux, and to install other Linux OS just to see what they are like. There would be NO shared data between OS's. Machine would not be used as backup storage for other computers either.
It looks to me like I can set up /, swap, /home and be done. I'd set it that way so /home could be made smaller from the end of the disk and the new/unallocated space be used for another /, /home (same 'Name', same 'location', different user is what I think would work to avoid configuration problems).
What I see as needing to know is how to structure the partitions. My reference for this is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning About 2/3's down the page is a series of partition charts relative to firmware/disk with partition recommendations. I think this machine is the third type... "BIOS/GPT".
So, I could use some advice and am happy to have views.
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I should say... I've been running Linux since Ubuntu 6.06. I've got a ton of Linux stuff in my head but don't actually know anything and will be a beginning beginner with Linux the rest of my days. I've set up three different Windows dual boots that all ended in Linux-only machines. The last (this one) is Linux multi-boot with a shared data partition (/mnt/data via "OldFred" at Ubuntu Forums). I haven't done any of the mentioned without pretty serious step by step help... and that's what I'd like more of now.
Mike
Windows disk management shows MBR.
Belarc Advisor finds: Boot Mode: Legacy BIOS in UEFI (Secure Boot not supported)
I've searched BIOS/firmware pages and do not find CSM or any other indication of disk-type switches. It seems like this Hitachi HDD is GPT/UEFI but the firmware limits it to BIOS/MBR. There is no 'Secure Boot's switch. There is a "Normal/Fast" boot switch set "Normal". Nothing else other than an "Enabled" USB Legacy to facilitate using mouse/keyboard not OS supported for USB.
I'm asking so I can install Linux Lite the way I'd like to with least potential for problems... fixings... reinstalls... ???
---------------------------------------------------
What I want to do:
Linux-only machine to be used as backup for other computers, and so Sarah can learn a little Linux, and to install other Linux OS just to see what they are like. There would be NO shared data between OS's. Machine would not be used as backup storage for other computers either.
It looks to me like I can set up /, swap, /home and be done. I'd set it that way so /home could be made smaller from the end of the disk and the new/unallocated space be used for another /, /home (same 'Name', same 'location', different user is what I think would work to avoid configuration problems).
What I see as needing to know is how to structure the partitions. My reference for this is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning About 2/3's down the page is a series of partition charts relative to firmware/disk with partition recommendations. I think this machine is the third type... "BIOS/GPT".
So, I could use some advice and am happy to have views.
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I should say... I've been running Linux since Ubuntu 6.06. I've got a ton of Linux stuff in my head but don't actually know anything and will be a beginning beginner with Linux the rest of my days. I've set up three different Windows dual boots that all ended in Linux-only machines. The last (this one) is Linux multi-boot with a shared data partition (/mnt/data via "OldFred" at Ubuntu Forums). I haven't done any of the mentioned without pretty serious step by step help... and that's what I'd like more of now.
Mike