<p dir="ltr">Minimalist fedora well fits on a CD with space leftover :-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Fedora 24 supports KDE as a "spin" called plasma. Grab the installer and run with it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Turn secure boot off in bios and reboot back to bios. Now allow legacy boot and reboot again. Now install.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 9, 2016 10:21 PM, <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@comcast.net" target="_blank">kilpatms@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I really don't think the choice of OS is causing the problem. I >think< my problems are all tied to the interaction of the OS with the BIOS.<br>
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I have no idea what is going on in grub either.<br>
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I have been talking about booting from the CD drive -- but of course it is a CD/DVD drive and modern OS.iso files are way too big to fit on a CD.<br>
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Sean<br>
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You could try openSUSE Leap.<br>
I'm running it on all of my personal devices, and I absolutely have to have KDE.<br>
-jt<br>
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James Taylor<br>
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>>> <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@comcast.net">kilpatms@comcast.net</a>> 10/9/2016 9:02 PM >>><br>
Yes.<br>
I am keeping Fedora on my main box, but I much prefer KDE over Grub (I am NOT trying to start a flame war now) and Fedora no longer supports KDE. Debian/Ubuntu/Mint offers a KDE desktop/apps.<br>
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Sean,<br>
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who is now fighting a BIOS that has removed any way to boot from the CD drive!!!!!!!<br>
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GRRRRRRR<br>
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Any particular reason you're changing distros?<br>
You might verify you can install the distro you know on this hardware first.<br>
It will be easier to work out the configuration details no something you know, then if you want to try something different, you will at least know you have a good hardware config to work with.<br>
-jt<br>
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>>> <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@comcast.net">kilpatms@comcast.net</a>> 10/9/2016 8:19 PM >>><br>
Well, not quite a brick. The boot process ends with a terminal window and this prompt: grub>_<br>
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It's been a decade or more since I last had to muck about with grub. I have no idea at all what I might be able to do at this point. I am still trying to shuffle BIOS settings -- hoping that land on the combination that works.<br>
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Sean<br>
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That's that I did -- and now I have a brick!<br>
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Apparently I am caught in some sort of diabolical hell caused by EFI and Secure Boot.<br>
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The BIOS software doesn't have a usable manual and the Ubuntu install program seems to believe (wrongly) that it plays nicely with this crap. It even requires me to set up a partition just for EFI!<br>
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I'm still fighting this. Has anyone here recently installed a current Debian OS on a computer damned with a UFI/Secure Boot BIOS?<br>
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Sean<br>
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