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Re: Advice on Debian installation

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On 08-07-17, Fungi4All wrote:
> From: sebastian.luna.valero@gmail.com
> 
> > Great, many thanks for your quick replies!
> > Will try that, fingers crossed!
> 
> Don't listen to those ubuntu haters, nothing will happen.
> Leave it as is. When debian installs its version of grub
> on /dev/sda it will be in control and provide you boot entries
> for win7, ubuntu, and Debian. If you log back to Ubuntu
> and $sudo grub-install /dev/sda
> $sudo update-grub it will gain back control and create
> the same boot entries for all three but ubuntu will be
> first choice. At least this way you will not have to look
> at the ugly green debian snail screen when you wake
> up in the morning! :)
> As long as you are not including an Arch/Manjaro
> installation you will be fine with either grub. I have had
> up to seven of them (it only takes a few kb of space).
> Delete the ubuntu partition and you will be OK!
> Tell this to the ausie guy that installed stretch from scratch and
> lost all networking! 3-4 days ago. At least this man can download
> all the gpg stuff and the deb files that were needed from ubuntu
> and pass them to the half broken isolated debian installation.
> Just keep your fingers crossed and debian might even work
> first time around.

Do you even bother to read other people posts? He wants to install
Debian where Ubuntu install is. He wants to replace it.

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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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