The typical distro’s installer will just take care of setting up GRUB for you, don’t worry about that. I’m doing something similar with my home partition, except I made a home partition with all the expected user folders ~/Videos ~/Documents ~/Music ~/Games etc and then used overlayFS which keeps ~/.config/ and the like separate for each OS partition while letting me share everything else.
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raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Linux@lemmy.ml•I finally installed Linux, but I'm having a mixed experienceEnglish2·1 year agoCan I partition /home directory in a different drive and still function?
Yes, easily done.
Open KDE partition manager
Create your new partition in whatever filesystem you like. NTFS can be problematic.
Now copy the contents of /home to the new partition.
Once it’s transferred you can delete the contents of /home, or it will interfere with mounting from the new partition.
Now open KDE partition manager again to set the mountpoint of that partition to /home and check “automatically mount on boot”You can easily repeat this process to move everything to your new new drive later.
In future if you install linux again, you can do this in the installer by simply telling it to mount X partition as Y mountpoint, even saving all your user files across installs!
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...English881·1 year agoI hope this sentiment never stops someone from uploading a textbook without OCR. Once it’s scanned it can always be OCRed at a later time.
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto[Dormant, please move to !television@lemm.ee] Movies and TV Shows@lemm.ee•Tron 3 (or TR3N) started production today.English2·1 year agoThe first page of google results for “tren” are all about the steroid trenbolone.
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•What liberals mean by "nuance"English16·1 year agoDoes lemmygrad have a bestof subcommunity?
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Every time I look into another bit of US electoral law, I have a harder time understanding their "democracy" obsessionEnglish8·1 year agoClearly I’m not communicating this very well, and I only meant it as an off hand comment not a world changing statement. No, I wasn’t concerned about efficiency, just pointing out that we know how to do voting, but bourgeois democracy chooses not to.
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Every time I look into another bit of US electoral law, I have a harder time understanding their "democracy" obsessionEnglish5·1 year agoMy point is that we know what introduces sample bias, that’s it. it’s already gamed to the point that it’s hardly worth talking about.
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Every time I look into another bit of US electoral law, I have a harder time understanding their "democracy" obsessionEnglish67·1 year agoIf you actually wanted to do democracy (and I think one day we will want to do democracy for many if not most things, once the average person is not quite so steeped in false consciousness) you would treat it the same way you would treat a survey. I don’t think each and every person voting actually matters, just like you don’t have to ask every soul in America to find out, say, America’s favorite pie. If only 1% were sampled to vote and it was done so in a reasonably unbiased way, your results would be 99.999% in line with the average American’s opinion/wants.
Takeaway: We’ve been doing studies and combating sample bias for hundreds of years, including before “democracy” began in the US. We know how to do it, it’s genuinely never been tried.
Apparently I’m wrong and Pop_Os uses systemD-boot not GRUB, which is surprising to me because unless things have changed I’ve always thought of systemD-boot as being underpowered for a lot of use cases.
If I’m reading the wiki correctly here, I think it’s saying systemd-boot cannot launch windows because it’s on another drive? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-boot#Boot_from_another_disk
But on the other hand it’s interesting that it’s able to “see” the windows partition so I might be completely wrong.
Well it’s there at least. Hmm. I don’t know a whole lot about windows but you can certainly get back to those boot options you saw before by pressing shift while booting, which will open the GRUB options. I’d give the windows boot manager another shot from there.
If that ends up working you can change the grub settings to wait for input instead of automatically booting pop. If that doesn’t work then something is probably wrong with windows and I would just try reinstalling since it sounds like you don’t have anything on there yet.
From Pop_OS, if you launch the “disks” program, can you see the other drive there, and the NTFS windows partition on it?
This reminds me of one of the best bits from the Xanth novels, where the male unicorns peacock for the female unicorns by leaping in the air and landing horn-first in the ground, then see who can balance like that the longest.
Which is second only to the part in the same book where the main character is taking a shit in the woods when a harpy shows up and he has to try to run away with his pants down, unwiped, while the harpy is shouting abuse after him
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Need advice on remote management of a Jellyfin server and Qbittorrent.English5·2 years agoThis “you can’t Forward your own ports” shit needs to be made illegal. It’s cutting off your ability to run your own service and making everyone a passive consumer on the Internet if you aren’t one of the big tech companies.
Is it a linux box, and if so would you be able to ssh into this box? You could rename them that way right?
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 46English1·2 years agodeleted by creator
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Linux@lemmy.ml•cheapest new computer running linux <$500English2·2 years agoDepending on how old it might be another method. Some have a switch somewhere, or a specific screw. Check out mrchromebox’s page.
And yeah you just boot it with the battery disconnected once and it disables the write protect!
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Linux@lemmy.ml•cheapest new computer running linux <$500English6·2 years agoAnd if you open it up and unplug the battery, then boot off the charger that disables the write protect and you can install actual linux, though a lot of chromebooks have unique hardware that might not be supported, particularly audio IME.
I used to have a dell chromebook 11, and with bitmap fonts it was actually a pretty slick little computer for <$100.
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Capitalism in Decay@lemmygrad.ml•How a history teacher tricked nearly an entire class into becoming protofascistsEnglish121·2 years agoThat’s what I thought, the fascists were bad because not enough “individualism”. Example # 35023 of liberals having zero defenses against fascism.
raven [he/him]@hexbear.netto Capitalism in Decay@lemmygrad.ml•How a history teacher tricked nearly an entire class into becoming protofascistsEnglish14·2 years agoBeing a Nazi is when you’re just romping around in a designer uniform being disciplined or whatever and then suddenly fuhrer says it’s time for a genocide or two.
(Full disclosure I only watched the first half, maybe it redeems itself in the second half I don’t know)
Apple by this time next year: We need to epoxy the entire airspace inside the new iphone because… waterproofing? Sure waterproofing I promise that’s why we did that.