> down. First computer was a Heathkit H-120 with 8088
> and 8080 cpus. Had 768K of Ram with separate video
> board with 192K of ram from video. Way back in 1983.
> Old dos 1 with dual 320K floppies. So, lots of changes
> over years..
>
> Thanks for info.
>
>
>
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On Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 08:53:14 AM EST, Robert McBroom via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael
Have a Dell Studio XPS system of about that vintage that has migrated
from Windows 7 to version 10. Migrated from the original disk drive to
an SSD. No problem with accessing the windows system from Fedora 37. The
system predates the uefi bios. Have three drives with different os on
each one. The fedora os's boot from the files in /boot and /boot/loader
with the windows os as a stanza in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg from
/etc/grub.d/40_custom. Windows is still on a MBR drive while the other
two are GPT.
Robert
PS Graduated before my school got a hard drive for the IBM 1130
On 1/10/23 09:18, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> On 10 Jan 2023 at 8:16, Go Canes wrote:
>
> From: Go Canes<letsgonhlcanes0@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date sent: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:16:05 -0500
> Subject: Re: Installed Fedora 37 on older Dell with
> Windows 10, but doen't
> show windows as boot option??
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>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:08 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users
>> <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Don't use windows much at all. So probable not worth doing for me. Windows was pre-install so have no windows media, and would have to find method to get the key code.
>> Do a google search for "download windows 10 iso" and there are links
>> to download the install media directly from Microsoft.
>>
>> Older Dell systems had a sticker with the Windows license key. You
>> can use "sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM" to extract a
>> license key that is embedded in the firmware. There is also a Windows
>> program I have used that extracts the license key along with other
>> useful info, but I don't remember what it is, and I don't have any of
>> my Windows VM booted at the moment.
> Strange.. Looked all over the machine, and Only 2
> stickers I find on machine are one that says Windows 7,
> and another one that says Intel i5 inside??
> But when I got machine, it had Windows 10 installed,
> and CPU-z and lshw-gui both show the CPU as an i3 not
> an i5? Think I've used belarc advisor before and think it
> actually displays the windows key. Think it is Optiplex
> 9020 small form..
>
> Since the Windows 10 was installed on regular bios boot,
> don't think the firmware would have any info. Just had a
> small sda1partition with recovery, and sda2 was the c
> drive on the 1T drive with 8G of ram. Had done a check
> on upgrading cpu, but the socket and bios it reported
> wouldn't support above the i3, or above the chips
> generation. Recently upgraded CPU in one of my ASUS
> motherboards from and AMD 2 core to AMD 8 core with
> no issues. Did require a much better fan to keep temp
> down. First computer was a Heathkit H-120 with 8088
> and 8080 cpus. Had 768K of Ram with separate video
> board with 192K of ram from video. Way back in 1983.
> Old dos 1 with dual 320K floppies. So, lots of changes
> over years..
>
> Thanks for info.
>
>
>
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