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UEFI install
titan:
Well time has come for my first UEFI install. I can't see anything about UEFI in the manual and a search of the forum not much help. Also looking on the net there seems a lot of conflicting advice. From what I have read it seems secure boot needs to be turned off in BIOS then a GPT partition created after that looks like siduction installer should work OK. Any advice welcome. This will be a clean install on new hardware Linux only.
pjnsmb:
I guess you have seen these :
https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=4309.msg36118;topicseen#msg36118
https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=4254.0
more reading I used :
http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/
melmarker:
UEFI is easy with calamares - one of the main reasons to jump on that wagon.
The important points are:
* secure boot has to be off
* it is recommended to use GPT with UEFI
Thats nearly all for to begin with - i would recommend to make one or two UEFI installations in Virtualbox or KVM to get more familar with - and i also would like to recommend to have the installation as basic as possible. Esp. i would not choose the advanced (manual) installation for first timers.
titan:
Thanks for the pointers. I had seen Easygoin post but it is a bit out of date now. A couple of questions, do I now just create the image on a usb as per the manual and calamares does the rest.What size would be recommended for the EFI partition, also separate root and home. Arch suggests EFI 250MB, Root 35GB and the rest as home but I have seen several other wildly varying alternative suggestions.
melmarker:
I really don't want to start a flame war about partitioning drives - right now i let calamares do the partitioning and be done with - and i'm not a very friend of /home partitions - imho they are useless and utter crap. I like the approach of data partitions more - and linking these things into $HOME - esp. nice for more than one installation per machine.
And i wrote several times about - i would never ever partition all of a drive - it comes quite handy to have some unpartitioned space left on a device if one need some space (test installations etc)
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