Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help

From	William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.debian
Subject	Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help
Date	2016-07-13 23:24 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2016-07-13, Peter "Shaggy" Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> Groovy hepcat azigni was jivin' in alt.os.linux.debian on Wed, 13 Jul
> 2016 4:52 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.
>
>> decade now. The Pc in question is a Dell Inspiron that is now a few
>> years old. Of course it came with Windows 7.
>
>   OK.
>
>> I have two drives installed. The primary if you will has Debian. The
>> second drive is for distro hopping. Away from Mac, Debian has always
>> been my main distro.
>
>   OK.
>
>> The hard drive with Windows was part of the Dell long enough to get
>> registered and get it updated. Then it was replaced with a fresh
>> drive, and Debian was installed. I then added a second drive for
>> distro hopping.
>
>   Right.
>
>> I want to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10.
>
>   Um... huh? Why?
>
>> Then Windows can have the C drive, get updated, taken out and placed
>> in the closet (again).
>
>   Let me see if I have this right. You want to take a system you have
> never used, bung it in your machine, upgrade it to a system that will
> tax your few years old computer, then remove it, put it away in storage
> and never use it. Is that about the size of it?
>   Why on Earth would you want to do that? An acquaintance and I have
> often had discussions about people who upgrade the operating systems on
> their old computers then wonder why their machines run slower than
> molasses. It just doesn't make sense; especially if you're not even
> going to use the upgraded system anyhow! What's the point?

He said that if he decided to sell the machine, it having Windows 10 on it
would get a higher price than if it only had Win 7 or Linux. Since
whatever he has on it it probably will not get more than 100-200$, I
agree it is not clear that it is worth it. 
He then changed his tune and said he just wanted to know how to transfer
Debian to the second drive, AND have it boot UEFI.

By far the easiest would be to just install Debian on the second drive
from the installation medium and tell it to format the disk with UEFI,
but that did not seem to satisfy him.


>

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Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-12 05:33 +0000
  Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 14:40 +0200
    Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-12 15:41 +0000
      Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-07-12 18:02 +0200
        Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 19:44 +0200
          Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-07-12 19:52 +0200
      Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 19:33 +0200
        Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-12 18:52 +0000
          Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 21:49 +0200
            Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-13 00:04 +0000
              Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-13 01:02 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-13 05:30 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-13 14:32 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-13 20:04 +0200
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-13 18:06 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-13 20:03 +0200
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-13 19:59 +0200
          Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help "Peter \"Shaggy\" Haywood" <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2016-07-13 18:54 +1000
            Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-13 23:24 +0000
              Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-14 01:28 +0000
      Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-12 18:43 +0000

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