[Discuss] Converting Windows to Linux

[betsys at gmail.com (Betsy Schwartz)]

Do you have known working Windows 10 installation media? That's
usually the sticking point. You can test by seeing if you can install
windows 10 into a VM before you blow yours away.

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
<greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Betsy Schwartz <betsys at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You want to p2v the windows box. I think this is easier to do with
>> VMware converter. You can verify that you have a fully working VM
>> before you trash the original install.
>> You can convert the vmware vm into OVM if you want, afterwards
>>
>
> Thanks Betsy, but I don't really see the need to do a Physical 2 Virtual
> conversion since the Windows installation is brand new / empty.  It's
> quicker / easier to just reinstall Windows (especially since I'm not a
> VMWare expert and don't have the software).
>
> What I'm finding during Ubuntu installation is that I need to create a
> password to disable Secure Boot (in order to install proprietary drivers).
>
> 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.
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