I would also add that I think it would be best to install just on that partition that the ubuntu lives. the Dell team usually has some nice recovery and other partitions I think are nice to keep.
Diego On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Nicolás Ortega Froysa < nicolas.ortega.fro...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you're going to be doing a complete reinstall then I don't see why > keep the Ubuntu partitioning. Unless you like the way it's partitioned > (in terms of swap, if it uses a /home partition, etc.) just do a > reinstall with a Debian disc. It shouldn't be that difficult a process. > In my case, considering how messy that file partitioning looks, I would > do a complete reinstall with Debian, keep a swap partition, and that's > about it (maybe a home partition). > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Vesta wrote: > > Dell Inspiron 15 3542 Intel i3-4005U comes with Ubuntu OS. I want > install Debian in place of Ubuntu: will be better completely format hard > drive when install Debian, or it make sense keep existing disk paritioning > structure and install Debian into Ubuntu partition (Partition 3)? Hard > drive have 5 partitions: > > > > DellUtility, Partition 1 (367MB), FAT > > OS, Partition 2 (3.2GB), FAT > > Filesystem, Partition 3, (488GB), Ext4 > > Extended, Partition 4 (8.4GB) > > Swap, Partition 5, (8GB) > > Free space (1.1MB) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-Desktops mailing list > > Linux-Desktops@dell.com > > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops > > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > > -- > Nicolás Andrés Ortega Froysa (Deathsbreed) > http://themusicinnoise.net/ > Quote: "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose > but your chains." > - Karl Marx > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-Desktops mailing list > Linux-Desktops@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > -- *Diego A. Martinez, Ph.D.* _______A------T_____ ____T------------A__ __G---------------C_ __C------------G____ _____G-----C________ ______A--T__________ ______T----A________ ____G----------C____ ___A--------------T_ _____A------------T_ _______T-------A____
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