[ale] Debian/Ubuntu/Mint install

[Steve Litt]

Don't wipe the disk: Doing so would make your warranty useless, becuase
you could not then jump through the silly little Windows diagnostic
hoops your laptop manufacturer's tech support will make you jump
through.

If you can't dual boot (it's become much harder since this UEFI
ridiculosity), buy a new disk for Linux, and keep the original one to
keep tech support happy. When your warranty expires, use that disk for
something else.

True story: It took me many phonecalls and a pressure nudge from
Costco's Concierge service to the laptop manufacturer to get a new
battery when the old one demonstrably couldn't charge enough to start
the computer. Every time they rattled off a windows diagnostic and I
said "sorry I have Linux, no such diagnostic", they replied "then we
can't help you. It's our policy."

SteveT



On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 14:08:28 -0400
Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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