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[Solved] How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

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[Solved] How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

#1 Post by integral »

SOLVED: Basically the steps are the same for reinstalling Debian. One thing I did not find online was that you had to reinstall grub, so don't skip that step in the installation.

I have Debian Jessie installed alongside Windows 7. I'm wondering if there is a way for me to reinstall Debian, while keeping Windows. Instead of Jessie, this time I will be using the Testing netinst image.
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Re: How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

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Re: How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

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integral wrote:I have Debian Jessie installed alongside Windows 7. I'm wondering if there is a way for me to reinstall Debian, while keeping Windows. Instead of Jessie, this time I will be using the Testing netinst image.
If you are still struggling with basic questions like how to install dual-boot, then you're not ready to run Testing.

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Re: How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

#4 Post by GarryRicketson »

This has been discussed before, just a little bit.
Search found 1580 matches: +Install +Debian +dual +boot

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Re: How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

#5 Post by integral »

dasein, you said that "If you are still struggling with basic questions like how to install dual-boot, then you're not ready to run Testing." My OP says that I have "Debian installed alongside Windows" meaning I already dual boot. So how can you say that I'm struggling with dual booting if I already dual boot? That doesn't make any sense at all.

GarryRicketson, look through the links you gave me. There are literally 0 links related to my issue. Just to prove my point:

https://wiki.debian.org/WindowsDualBoot
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ ... 05.html.en
http://askubuntu.com/questions/254389/d ... -partition
http://linuxbsdos.com/2011/02/17/how-to ... windows-7/
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/sta ... steps.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYw3FUnh-CQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hd_NEvwr3M
https://www.linux.com/answers/i-already ... 15-without
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2955460/ ... -know.html
http://www.aboutdebian.com/dualboot.htm

How are any of those related to my problem? I ALREADY DUAL BOOT and those guides are guides for setting up the initial dual boot. And condescendingly adding in that "What we expect you have already Done" was a nice touch. Even though it was you who failed to understand my question properly. And why did you decide to post twice telling me pretty much the same thing? Do you feel better about yourself after chiding people with beginner's questions in the BEGINNER'S FORUM?
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Re: How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

#6 Post by squeeze »

It's easy, just reinstall like the first time you installed jessie and use the same partitions. Always check errata before installing: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata

Hint: No need to be upset, everybody makes mistakes sometimes. We'd like to help, but it's often frustrating, if the (seemingly) same question was asked and replied ~1000 times before and people won't take the time to research before asking here.
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#7 Post by GarryRicketson »

by integral » GarryRicketson, look through the links you gave me. There are literally 0 links related to my issue. Just to prove my point:
From the first link,...
How to run Debian smoothly in dual boot with Windows
Considerations
Partitions / Harddisks
When installing Windows and Debian on one shared hard disk,---------snip
Yes it does, it starts out with some basic things you need to know, and the one:
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/sta ... steps.html
As well, it covers everything about installing Debian, in every way, dual boot, or as a single OS, the others as well. So you are doing a good job of proving my point.
The Debian handbook covers a whole lot more things besides installing or re-installing , you really should read some of it , instead of choosing to remain ignorant.
by integral » My OP says that I have "Debian installed alongside Windows" meaning I already dual boot. So how can you say that I'm struggling with dual booting if I already dual boot? That doesn't make any sense at all.
Perhaps not , but your OP does not make any sense at all either based on that. If you all ready installed Debian along side windows, then installing it again "re-install" as you say, would be the same process, So are you "struggling" with that ? Did you forget how you installed Debian to start with ? If you are not "struggling" with it, and all ready know how to install Debian along side windows as a dual boot system, WHY did you ask the question to start with ?
Perhaps you knew it would get these kind of responses , ? There seem to be several persons that seem to enjoy asking questions that are very easy to answer, and can be answered just with some simple searches, and these persons keep on doing this, asking the same old questions over and over, and in spite of our efforts to try to get you to learn to do a search, read material, documentation, etc. They keep on, they never make any effort to solve even the simplest of problems. That is probably why you do not know how you installed the first installation of Debian, some body spoon fed you, held your hand and basically you did nothing, you never figured how to install Debian to start with, somebody else did it for you.
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Most of the other links you posted, I don't know where you got them from, but I never posted any of those, and don't know why you did that. I don't know if they have anything to do with your problem or not.
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And condescendingly adding in that "What we expect you have already Done" was a nice touch.
Have you ever read it, ?
"What we expect you have already Done"
There is a reason it is in the beginners forum,..If you had read it and if you had at least made a little effort to look for solutions to your problem, you would not have been "chided" as you call it.
Besides all that, I don't understand why you would want to do a fresh install of "testing" when you could just "upgrade" the Jessie you have installed , How ? Do a search on "How to upgrade Debian Jessie, to "testing"? or How to upgrade Debian Stable to testing ?
I think this topic is solved and could be closed.

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Re: How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

#8 Post by dasein »

integral wrote:Do you feel better about yourself after chiding people with beginner's questions in the BEGINNER'S FORUM?
It's odd that you should choose to cop an attitude when you failed to get my original and most fundamental point:

Testing is not for beginners. (And most certainly not for beginners who are still struggling with basic questions, but are too kewl to read the Wiki, do a simple Web search, etc.).

Equally odd that you should try the "I can't be expected to search or read, because I'm a newb" rap in the same breath as suggesting that others aren't making any sense.

Sheesh.

Some people's kids.

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Re: How do you reinstall Debian on a dual boot setup?

#9 Post by integral »

You keep saying I'm "struggling", but I'm not struggling. I already told you, and I will tell you again. I ALREADY HAVE dual booted Debian. Can you even read? You keep making it a point that I'm "struggling" because I don't know how to dual boot, when in fact I already dual boot. And what was the point of your post? You literally proved my point again. This is a beginner's forums, and you're literally trying to be belittle someone asking questions on a beginner's forum, that doesn't make sense at all. I don't even know why you are even here, you obviously didn't have any good intentions to begin with. You didn't come here to help, all you wanted to do is stroke your ego and tell me that I'm not "cool" enough to use testing. You're the child in this case. All I wanted was help with my problem.

GarryRicketson, that was the whole point of my post. I didn't know that the re-installation process was the same thing as the initial installation process. I didn't know if GRUB would break if I reinstalled, I didn't know if there was some special way of going about things. Before making the OP, I did my best and searched around looking for definitive answers, but I didn't, so I came here. It is resolved, I just reinstalled Debian, but without your help. I'm done arguing, and I'm marking this as solved.
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#10 Post by swirler »

integral wrote: I have Debian Jessie installed alongside Windows 7. I'm wondering if there is a way for me to reinstall Debian, while keeping Windows. Instead of Jessie, this time I will be using the Testing netinst image.
You could also have moved from Jessie to Testing without reinstalling: if I'm not mistaken, that's the traditional way to do it, editing your sources.list to point at Testing instead of Stable, then the usual apt-get update/apt-get upgrade/apt-get dist-upgrade procedure will take you from Jessie to Testing.

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deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian  testing main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
The contrib and non-free sources are optional in case you need them, also you could replace the http://httpredir.debian.org part with your ftp/http mirror of choice.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/secu ... rt-testing
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

On the other hand, if the installer works as in Jessie, it should detect the other partition and give you the choice of installing GRUB or not, and eventually where to install it.
I'd take a backup of everything important (or even the full system) before doing this stuff, at least that's what I usually do.

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