Re: Advice on Debian installation
Thanks All, I am glad to report that Debian 9 was successfully installed on my laptop! Removing Ubuntu at the partitioning stage and installing GRUB on the MBR actually worked. Best regards, Sebastian
Re: Advice on Debian installation
Le 09/07/2017 à 00:30, Fungi4All a écrit : From: jode...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Do you even bother to read other people posts? He wants to install Debian where Ubuntu install is. He wants to replace it. why worry about ubuntu grub if it gets erased intentionally, it doesn't make sense. Depending on how GRUB is installed by the Debian Installer, a non functional part of Ubuntu GRUB might remain and cause confusion.
Re: Advice on Debian installation
> From: jode...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Do you even bother to read other people posts? He wants to install > Debian where Ubuntu install is. He wants to replace it. why worry about ubuntu grub if it gets erased intentionally, it doesn't make sense.
Re: Advice on Debian installation
On 08-07-17, Fungi4All wrote: > From: sebastian.luna.val...@gmail.com > > > Great, many thanks for your quick replies! > > Will try that, fingers crossed! > > Don't listen to those ubuntu haters, nothing will happen. > Leave it as is. When debian installs its version of grub > on /dev/sda it will be in control and provide you boot entries > for win7, ubuntu, and Debian. If you log back to Ubuntu > and $sudo grub-install /dev/sda > $sudo update-grub it will gain back control and create > the same boot entries for all three but ubuntu will be > first choice. At least this way you will not have to look > at the ugly green debian snail screen when you wake > up in the morning! :) > As long as you are not including an Arch/Manjaro > installation you will be fine with either grub. I have had > up to seven of them (it only takes a few kb of space). > Delete the ubuntu partition and you will be OK! > Tell this to the ausie guy that installed stretch from scratch and > lost all networking! 3-4 days ago. At least this man can download > all the gpg stuff and the deb files that were needed from ubuntu > and pass them to the half broken isolated debian installation. > Just keep your fingers crossed and debian might even work > first time around. Do you even bother to read other people posts? He wants to install Debian where Ubuntu install is. He wants to replace it.
Re: Advice on Debian installation
From: sebastian.luna.val...@gmail.com > Great, many thanks for your quick replies! > Will try that, fingers crossed! Don't listen to those ubuntu haters, nothing will happen. Leave it as is. When debian installs its version of grub on /dev/sda it will be in control and provide you boot entries for win7, ubuntu, and Debian. If you log back to Ubuntu and $sudo grub-install /dev/sda $sudo update-grub it will gain back control and create the same boot entries for all three but ubuntu will be first choice. At least this way you will not have to look at the ugly green debian snail screen when you wake up in the morning! :) As long as you are not including an Arch/Manjaro installation you will be fine with either grub. I have had up to seven of them (it only takes a few kb of space). Delete the ubuntu partition and you will be OK! Tell this to the ausie guy that installed stretch from scratch and lost all networking! 3-4 days ago. At least this man can download all the gpg stuff and the deb files that were needed from ubuntu and pass them to the half broken isolated debian installation. Just keep your fingers crossed and debian might even work first time around.
Re: Advice on Debian installation
Great, many thanks for your quick replies! Will try that, fingers crossed!
Re: Advice on Debian installation
Le 08/07/2017 à 20:10, Sebastian Luna Valero a écrit : I have a dual-boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. I am planning to install the latest Debian 9 LTS on the partition where Ubuntu is currently installed. Note that Debian 9 is not yet LTS and won't be before a long time. The current LTS is Debian 7 "Wheezy". A release eventually becomes LTS only after normal support has ended, one year after becoming oldstable. Since grub is already available on the laptop, does anyone know what will happy when I install grub again with Debian? It depends where Ubuntu installed GRUB, and where Debian will install it. Anyway, some parts of GRUB are in /boot, so GRUB must be reinstalled if you're going to wipe /boot.
Re: Advice on Debian installation
On Sat 08 Jul 2017 at 19:10:23 +0100, Sebastian Luna Valero wrote: > I have a dual-boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. I am > planning to install the latest Debian 9 LTS on the partition where Ubuntu > is currently installed. > > Since grub is already available on the laptop, does anyone know what will > happy when I install grub again with Debian? Delete the Ubuntu partition at the partitioning stage and later on install GRUB. All will be well.
Advice on Debian installation
Hello, I have a dual-boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. I am planning to install the latest Debian 9 LTS on the partition where Ubuntu is currently installed. Since grub is already available on the laptop, does anyone know what will happy when I install grub again with Debian? Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Best regards, Sebastian
