[Liverpool] Possible topic for future talk

Sebastian Arcus shop at open-t.co.uk
Wed Oct 24 12:55:20 UTC 2012


On 24/10/12 13:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:16:52 +0100, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>
>> I'm in the process (read: struggling, cursing and pulling hair out) of
>> installing Linux on a new machine which only supports UEFI (the
>> replacement for BIOS) and GPT (the replacement for MBR). Now maybe
>> others using more sleek distro's than me ;-) will have a bit less of a
>> hassle - but it occurred to me that a talk on some of the workings of
>> UEFI, GPT and how it might affect installing Linux could be an
>> interesting topic for those who haven't dealt with this hurdle yet. Any
>> takers?
>
> I've been using GPT with traditional BIOS for some time, it's a lot nicer
> than farting around with primary, extended and logical partitions. but
> I've not experienced UEFI and would love to hear about the pitfalls
> before I do - as you probably wish you had ;-)
>
> We've already got a talk booked for November, so how about I put you down
> for the December talk?


December would sound good - except I'm away that week. Do we have a 
meeting in January?



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