UEFI ...

[Bobbie Sellers]

Letting Linux live with it.

How to deal with absurd Windows-only filesystem.
Setup Linux only or even dual-boot.
I know it is not Mandriva specific but I think
it is a topic a lot of forward-thinking people are
interested in.

I got this in another Linux Usenet newsgroup.

<http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/858>

And the following which is Fedora specific/

<http://goo.gl/pmDrG>

bliss

[Adam]

Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Letting Linux live with it.
>
> How to deal with absurd Windows-only filesystem.
> Setup Linux only or even dual-boot.
> I know it is not Mandriva specific but I think
> it is a topic a lot of forward-thinking people are
> interested in.

Thanks for the heads-up, Bobbie! I wasn't even aware I'd have to
deal with that with my next computer. It will probably be an
off-the-shelf model so it will probably come with Windows 7 whether
I want it or not. My plan for it, which I may have to rethink, had
been the same as with my current (2007) off-the-shelf system: keep
Windows on it (shrink its partition) until the warranty is over.
The DVD drive on this one did have problems several months into the
warranty, and I knew that Customer Service would want me to run some
diagnostics that had been included with Windows.

Adam
--
Registered Linux User #536473

[Adam]

Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> BTW I originally
>> replied in the "UEFI" thread you started, and hoped discussion
>> of that would continue there. I'm not sure how to move this
>> discussion back there, though.
>
> Just post in that thread.

Thanks! I wasn't sure of the netiquette for what seems like the
opposite of hijacking a thread. :-)

Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 05/19/2012 09:48 AM, Adam wrote:
>>
>> my next system (later this year) will
>> probably be an off-the-shelf HP with Windows. Perhaps things
>> have changed, but this Compaq (2007) and my parents' Compaq
>> (2011) didn't come with any discs at all
[...]
>> I figure (hope) that as the months go on, some sort of solution
>> or workaround will emerge from the Linux community. At least
>> now I have a better idea of what to expect.
>
> You have to have a Windows computer that
> has the UEFI instead of the BIOS to even begin to worry about
> this stuff.

I know -- I'm thinking ahead to my next system (probably later this
year) and I gather the Windows systems now shipping are using UEFI.
The only reason I want to keep Windows on it at first is because
it's needed for firmware upgrades supplied by HP and also for user
testing of any in-warranty problems. After that, I'll probably wipe
Windows completely, as I did on this system.