Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
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

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-28 Thread Joel Roth
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 repartitioning

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-28 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Bob Bernstein poo...@ruptured-duck.com 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

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Darac Marjal
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 what I'm

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
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 'bout! To

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Jordan Langelier
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 machine. I

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread james
On Friday, March 27, 2015 4:30pm, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net 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,

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
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 beneficial

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
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

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
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

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
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 installer the

Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
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

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread Magnus Svensson
Yes, all tools you need to formatting is included in the iso. /M On 26 Mar 2015 21:03, Bob Bernstein poo...@ruptured-duck.com 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

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
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,