On 07/12/2017 05:38 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
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. ...
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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.
I want to use Ubuntu first because the machine is certified from Dell
to work with it as that's what it shipped with. If the SSD PCIe drive
I'm putting in doesn't work, I'll only have that (and the copy
process) as factors w/o complicating things with Fedora 26 (which I
didn't realise was even out. :-)
-Sherman
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