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[Discuss] Converting Windows to Linux

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

>
> The Windows Boot Manager is installed into a 272 MB partition, and there
> is also a 1 GB "reccovery" partition on the same SSD drive.  I wonder if I
> can just combine these two partitions and "reserve them for BIOS boot
> area", meaning install Grub there.
>

I chose to just overwrite the 272 EFI Windows Boot Manager with Grub2
I'm reformatting the 1 GB partition to XFS and mounting at /home (which I
will expand after install)
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