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Re: virtualisation

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On Tue, 23 May 2023 11:33:56 +0100
"mick.crane" <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2023-05-22 23:18, David Christensen wrote:
>  [...]  
>  [...]  
>  [...]  
> I had previously installed Ubuntu on this disk,
> after installing Bookworm the Ubuntu EFI option in the BIOS was still 
> there.
> I removed it in the BIOS menu. There was some message in the boot
> screen in legacy mode
> "Alternate (partition?) corrupted using primary" or something.
> It doesn't seem to have stopped anything working.
> 
> root@pumpkin:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
> Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors
> Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x7899140a
> 
> Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1  *         2048 466862079 466860032 222.6G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2       466864126 468860927   1996802   975M  5 Extended
> /dev/sda5       466864128 468860927   1996800   975M 82 Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> root@pumpkin:~#
> 
> boot is in /
> Is sda2 something to do with EFI?

No. Wikipedia is your friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record


> 
> >   
> >> I thought to try this virtualisation.  
> > 
> > 
> > Why?  
> 
> I thought maybe I could run a Windows program in a window on Debian 
> desktop.

You might look into wine as well.

apt show wine

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virtualisation "mick.crane" <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 20:50 +0200
  Re: virtualisation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-05-22 21:30 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2023-05-22 21:40 +0200
      Re: virtualisation "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-05-22 21:50 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-05-22 22:40 +0200
  Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-23 00:20 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-05-23 15:10 +0200
    Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-24 00:10 +0200
      Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-24 10:40 +0200
        Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-24 20:50 +0200
      Re: virtualisation Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2023-05-26 10:20 +0200
        GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-05-26 11:50 +0200
          Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-26 12:50 +0200
          Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2023-05-27 11:40 +0200
            Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-05-27 17:50 +0200
            Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-28 05:20 +0200
          Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation zithro <slack@rabbit.lu> - 2023-05-27 19:20 +0200
            Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-27 20:00 +0200
        Re: virtualisation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-05-26 12:40 +0200
    Re: virtualisation Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-05-25 18:30 +0200

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