Re: Lenovo Y520 and Debian?
Have you considered running Windows in a VM under Debian?
It would let you use both at the same time, rather than having to reboot
to switch.
I have Debian Jessie + KVM/QEMU running on a T540p with (2) SSD's (2.5"
+ m.2).
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Shawn Hughes
Brighton I.T. Solutions, LLC
888-624-2588
On 9/17/2017 20:50, Bill Harris wrote:
Has anyone installed Debian on a Lenovo Legion Y520? The Debian
Installation Manual for Stretch makes it sound straight-forward to do
in general: repartitioning the disk on the fly, dealing with UEFI, and
being sure to turn off secure boot. That sounds like it could create a
dual-boot or a Linux-only machine.
But It doesn't mention the fake RAID aka Intel RST. Are there
instructions that take that into account?
I'm willing to consider leaving the partition that seems to be on the
SSD alone (it's /Windows, I believe) and split the 1.8TB partition
into something like 300 GB for Windows, something for /boot, something
for / (perhaps 500 GB?), and the rest for /home.
If it's both easy and foolproof enough, I'm also open to wiping out
everything and installing Stretch. I've set up dual boot on the last
2 or 3 machines I've had and then almost never booted Windows. If a
Debian-only box worked, I guess I could put / on the SSD (or, better,
the fake RAID) and have a faster machine. Can you update the BIOS
from Linux?
Thanks,
Bill
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