Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE

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From	Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
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Subject	Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE
Date	Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:12:43 -0500
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 08:34:20 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
> On 04/02/2023 23:06, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>
>> Am just worried the Windows installation might be similar dumb as
>> Chrome
>> OS Flex, to not let the user choose a partition to be installed at.
>> Well, not planned any time soon anyway, so I keep looking for info.
>
> In general Windows does not see the need to parallel install, but
> Linux does, ergo its usually safer to install windows first and let
> Linux sort out the mess.

I put a lot of effort into Linux already, so won't reinstall it only to
have Windows.

> But really its far easier to use virtual box if you have spare RAM

Only 8 GB here. Also had trouble trying to get Qemu working (some errors
with devices it couldn't find on initial launch).

May be I'll try VirtualBox at some point.
-- 
Andreas

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  Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-02-01 08:03 +0100
    Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-02-01 17:19 +0000
  Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-01 10:35 -0800
    Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-02-03 21:45 +0000
      Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-03 18:39 -0500
        Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-02-04 14:34 +0200
          Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-04 18:06 -0500
            Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-04 20:34 -0800
              Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-05 21:10 -0500
            Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-05 08:34 +0000
              Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-05 21:12 -0500
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                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-09 11:31 +0000
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