[GTALUG] Questions for sys install

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jan 11 10:26:15 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 04:35:41PM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote:
> That was the clue that I needed. Secure boot was still enabled. With that
> removed I was able to use gparted to reduce the large partition to something
> that leaves room for what I want.
> 
> I have been mucking about with a server uefi bios and I thought that that
> was imbecilic but this one here made the server one seem straight forward
> and that's scary.
> 
> No wonder most people won't touch their computers - - - the bloatware
> malware and useless obsfucation isn't just rampant there isn't anything
> else left!

Servers don't ship with secureboot enabled.  Windows 8 and 10 machines
are required to by Microsoft if they want to have the sticker with the
windows logo.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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