Billy-Quizboy
January 28th, 2015, 01:06 PM
I have a decommssioned fleet Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 6075 and I want to dualboot.
It has no OS, a big, fresh, unpartitioned DASD in it, and the luxury of my choice: First installing Win 8.1 or any Ubuntu (or another distro) without worrying about preserving and restoring data/settings/drivers/profiles. (Also I don't need to get it built for my non-tech-savvy relative in a week.)
My experience level includes Windows alone, Ubuntu over XP, and many distros clean-sheet alone to HD and from USB, but never a dual-booted Win7 or Win8 with any Linux.
Which do I want to do first?
I'm hopefully not repeating a common thread. From what the folks here say, Microsoft's UEFI makes it less easy to put Linux on after Win 8.1, but also putting Windows on after a Linux means I'll have to recover or restore the Grub boot loader.
Thanks for any answers in advance.
It has no OS, a big, fresh, unpartitioned DASD in it, and the luxury of my choice: First installing Win 8.1 or any Ubuntu (or another distro) without worrying about preserving and restoring data/settings/drivers/profiles. (Also I don't need to get it built for my non-tech-savvy relative in a week.)
My experience level includes Windows alone, Ubuntu over XP, and many distros clean-sheet alone to HD and from USB, but never a dual-booted Win7 or Win8 with any Linux.
Which do I want to do first?
I'm hopefully not repeating a common thread. From what the folks here say, Microsoft's UEFI makes it less easy to put Linux on after Win 8.1, but also putting Windows on after a Linux means I'll have to recover or restore the Grub boot loader.
Thanks for any answers in advance.