Re: Win10 and Linux

Anders Holm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ilug.general
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Not really. Couldn't be less interested, to be honest. Other than
knowing how it will mess up other OS' on the same host, I couldn't
really care less. It's more Duplo to the people, really.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
What? It's Corinthians one, chapter thirteen verse eleven."

  -- Cereal Killer

//anders

On 07/08/2015 11:29, rob mathews wrote:
> I wanna take  look at windows 10 - not at the cost of any linux
> partitions, obviously, but aren't we all curious?
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:00 PM, <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     How about installing it into a VM eg VirtualBox.
>     Might do the job.
>     Francis
>
>     On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 11:18:57 AM UTC, Brian Carey wrote:
>
>         Hi Everyone,
>
>         I had similar issues with dual booting Windows.
>         Don't really see myself using it that much so not really that
>         interested in devoting a partition to it anymore.
>
>         I have been looking into creating a persistent Windows 10 USB
>         just to have it there to play with.
>         Any thoughts? Would it be usable? Worth the effort?
>
>         Brian
>
>         On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Conor Daly
>         <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>             If you had a record of your linux partitions you could try
>             to re-make
>             them.  They'll quite likely have all of the data there but
>             you'd have to
>             make sure you got the partition boundaries exactly right.
>
>             Conor
>
>             On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:59:21PM +0100 or so it is
>             rumoured hereabouts,
>             Aaron Hastings thought:
>             >    Yes. It wiped both of my Linux partitions. Gone. Well, "unallocated", but
>             >    not even worth attempting a recovery. This was the
>             straight Windows 7 ->
>             >    Windows 10 in-place upgrade.
>             >
>             >    Couldn't believe it. I mean, I expected the MBR to be
>             overwritten with the
>             >    Windows bootloader. That's an easy fix; just boot
>             into a Live USB and run
>             >    `grub-install /dev/sda` and you're laughing. Nope,
>             completely wiped. I saw
>             >    a few other reports on Reddit of the same thing, so
>             it seems I wasn't just
>             >    unlucky.
>             >
>             >    The funniest part? It didn't even install its
>             bootloader, so I couldn't
>             >    boot into anything. Ridiculous.
>             >
>             >    Aaron
>             >
>             >    On 31/07/2015 01:03, Bacon Zombie wrote:
>             >
>             >      I installed the preview on an extra partition.
>             >
>             >      Already had xubuntu and Win7 already installed.
>             >
>             >      Now when I choose Windows from Grub I get the
>             option for Win7 or X.
>             >
>             >      On Jul 30, 2015 5:45 PM, "Anders Holm"
>             <[1][email protected]> wrote:
>             >
>             >        M$ Win has historically always wanted to own the
>             MBR, so I'd expect it
>             >        to still do that. Keep yer USB recovery handy ...
>             and possibly save
>             >        out a copy of MBR (etc.) before upgrading???
>             >
>             >        //anders
>             >
>             >        On 30/07/2015 16:40, Gerard Cunningham wrote:
>             >
>             >          Anyone had any experience of upgrading to Win10
>             on a dual boot
>             >          machine yet? Curious to know if I should brace
>             myself for full linux
>             >          reinstall, whether win10 affects
>             grub/partitions etc
>             >
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