On 07/12/2017 05:13 PM, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: > On 07/11/2017 12:34 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> On 07/11/2017 11:59 AM, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: >>> Two questions: >>> >>> (1) Is anyone here running a late version of Fedora on the new >>> Dell Precision 7520 (or 5520)? >> >> I'm running Fedora 25 on a Precision 5520. I did get the Core i5 CPU >> and the 1080p screen, because I didn't want to mess with NVIDIA drivers >> and/or Optimus. >> > > Thanks Ian! I will get the i7 with a 1080p screen, but I _did_ order the > Nvidia card. > Dell told me that with Ubuntu loaded, they've set the Bios to lock onto > the Nvidia > card all the time, so Optimus should not be an issue. Also, I've never > had problems > using the nvidia driver via "akmods" and "akmod-nvidia" from rpmfusion. > Hope I don't have to eat my words. > >>> (2) I ordered the 7520 with a cheap disk drive. It will come with >>> Ubuntu installed. >>> I intend to replace the drive with a M.2 PCIe 1TB SSD card >>> (Samsung PM961). >>> How do I do a "disk copy" to the SDD so that the machine will >>> boot Ubuntu from it? >>> (Once I confirm things are working, I will blow away Ubuntu and >>> install F25 if >>> the answer to (1) is not negative. >> >> The easiest way will be to boot from a "live CD" on a USB thumdrive and >> copy the disk contents (or significant parts thereof) to a USB SDD or >> over the network. > > Sorry, I'm not understanding. What's the USB SSD doing? > The machine comes with Ubuntu installed > on a 1TB conventional disk. I want to do something like a "disk copy" > to the M.2 PCIe 1TB SSD which I've ordered from Amazon. > I suppose it must be installed in the machine to do this. > > I'm thinking about pulling the conventional drive out and putting > it in a USB disk dock I have. Then with the M.2 SSD installed, booting > off a live CD USB as you suggested. Then I'd use "rsync" (if the live > CD has it!) > to copy the Ubuntu system to a small partition I would make on the M.2. > Does that sound reasonable? > > The only part I'm not sure about is getting the machine to boot off the > M.2 SSD. > I'm a total novice with grub2. I'd just put your SSD in, download a copy of F26 Live (why bother with F25?) in whatever spin you want (Xfce, Gnome, KDE, whatever), burn it to a DVD or put it on a thumbdrive and boot your system with that and test it. If everything works OK, then just install F26 to the SSD using the "Install to disk" option on the Live media. There's absolutely no reason to boot Ubuntu at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
