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Re: Advice on Debian installation

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Advice on Debian installation
Date 2017-07-08 20:50 +0200
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Le 08/07/2017 à 20:10, Sebastian Luna Valero a écrit :
> 
> I have a dual-boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. I am
> planning to install the latest Debian 9 LTS on the partition where Ubuntu
> is currently installed.

Note that Debian 9 is not yet LTS and won't be before a long time.
The current LTS is Debian 7 "Wheezy". A release eventually becomes LTS 
only after normal support has ended, one year after becoming oldstable.

> Since grub is already available on the laptop, does anyone know what will
> happy when I install grub again with Debian?

It depends where Ubuntu installed GRUB, and where Debian will install 
it. Anyway, some parts of GRUB are in /boot, so GRUB must be reinstalled 
if you're going to wipe /boot.

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Advice on Debian installation Sebastian Luna Valero <sebastian.luna.valero@gmail.com> - 2017-07-08 20:20 +0200
  Re: Advice on Debian installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-08 20:30 +0200
  Re: Advice on Debian installation Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-08 20:50 +0200
    Re: Advice on Debian installation Sebastian Luna Valero <sebastian.luna.valero@gmail.com> - 2017-07-08 21:10 +0200
      Re: Advice on Debian installation Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-08 22:30 +0200
        Re: Advice on Debian installation Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-07-08 22:40 +0200
          Re: Advice on Debian installation Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-09 00:40 +0200
            Re: Advice on Debian installation Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-09 02:10 +0200
              Re: Advice on Debian installation Sebastian Luna Valero <sebastian.luna.valero@gmail.com> - 2017-07-09 13:00 +0200

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