On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell > with Win7 already on its 160g sata hard drive. > > I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot > machine. I only want wheezy on this for now.
Make a Restore disk of W7 anyway. Get the codes, etc. You never know: You may need to put W7 back on it. > Question: can I entrust to the Debian installer the > task of repartitioning and formatting the HD with all > that Windoze cruft already on it? Depends. Special partitioning scheme? LVM? RAID? Encryption? Etc. The options the installer gives you might not be what you want. For basic partitioning, though, the installer's partitioning tool works fine. > Or, are there steps I ought to take prior to launching > the installer, perhaps involving other disk tools? I > don't trust what M$ puts on hard drives! Yes, yes, YES! RTFMs before doing anything. Why do so many skip this VERY important step? And they do. Constantly. And screw up the install. And then blame Debian for it. https://www.debian.org/doc/ Do it right, the first time. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150326163824.56d79...@debian7.boseck208.net
