Got the new notebook, ordered without OS, yesterday. Was surprised on boot to be asked date/locale questions, thinking this is a sophisticated bios - turns out Windows was leftover from testing. Reboot, and switched off UEFI in the bios. But I saw only options for boot from windows drive or network. But I rebooted, pressed F7, and could boot Mint 18.1 from USB stick. A very quick test, and it seemed fine.
Haven't had chance to go back to it since, but I will install Mint 18.1 tomorrow. There is only a single SSD drive, which I'll format as two partitions (/ and /home), encrypted. (Oh, with probably 200MB for an unencrypted boot partition, too?) A single OS, so should be really straightforward?
My main concern/question is if Windows, UEFI, etc. will throw a spanner in the works? I imagine the disk partitioning will just wipe away all trace, and the bios will then start saying the main disk has a linux boot partition, not a windows one? Anything I need to watch out for?
Haven't had chance to go back to it since, but I will install Mint 18.1 tomorrow. There is only a single SSD drive, which I'll format as two partitions (/ and /home), encrypted. (Oh, with probably 200MB for an unencrypted boot partition, too?) A single OS, so should be really straightforward?
My main concern/question is if Windows, UEFI, etc. will throw a spanner in the works? I imagine the disk partitioning will just wipe away all trace, and the bios will then start saying the main disk has a linux boot partition, not a windows one? Anything I need to watch out for?
