[ale] Debian/Ubuntu/Mint install

[Jim Kinney]

Wipe the disk. Don't bother with a winbloze install at all. Win10 is not
worth the effort to keep it.

On Oct 9, 2016 12:45 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

>
> > 4.  Manual"
> >
>
> That is what you want, but it will assume you know enough to make the
> partitions you want, set the type as needed and tell them where to be
> mounted.  /, /home, /boot, swap ... assuming you want those.
>
> Of you want to dual boot, then just shrink the Windows disk use to be
> small enough for Linux to be installed, then use the "manual"
> partitioning at that same screen.  Why is it this hard?  Because the
> default setup since Win8 has had a few disk partition settings that
> aren't friendly to Linux (fastboot, hibernation). These need to be
> disabled and a reboot done so the NTFS file systems are actually closed
> first. Linux won't touch an "open" file system.
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