Re: Lenovo Y520 and Debian?

Bjorn, that looks promising if a bit complex.  I think I've got 256GB of
SSD, but I suspect that's not enough for /Windows and / on Linux.

Josh, I think you're right.  Perhaps that's the way to go: Linux will be
slower than it could be, but it may be easier.

What I don't know is if I can leave everything as it is, shrink the 1.8TB
NTSF partition, and use the free space for /, /boot, and /home.

Is it safe to say that writing to the RAID partition writes to both the HDD
and the SSD?  I'll have to find a description of that, too.

Thanks,

Bill

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Josh Blagden <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought I read something somewhere that said you can turn off RAID in
> the BIOS for the Y520. Or that might be for the Y720, though I'm pretty
> sure those two laptops are very similar, the only difference I can discern
> being the amount of VRAM for the GPU.
>
> Josh Blagden
>
> > On Sep 19, 2017, at 2:12 AM, Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Bill Harris <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> Besides, I think my concern comes ahead of  that: do I need to do
> anything
> >> special to prepare for Intel RST (fake RAID)?  If I knew that there
> were no
> >> problems ahead with that feature, then I could just start the installer,
> >> choosing to repartition for dual-boot or for only Linux, if I wished.
> >
> > I have no experience with this feature, but this wiki page might help?:
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid
> >
> >
> >
> > Bjørn
> >
>



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