Re: [sudo-discuss] Linux dual boot on Basement Computer bank?

A few months ago about a dozen Core 2 Duo Lenovo boxes with 4 GB of RAM materialized in the basement hall way. They were all left running with the monitors on, but they had Windohs on them and the lock screens required a password which was nowhere in evidence, and rebooting also required a PW to log in.  Anywho, since they just seemed to be heating the basement, and it was summertime anyway I shut them all off, and did so a couple of weeks later when I noticed they were powered back on again. Since then they have mostly been off, and some folks know the password and have been using them periodically. Someone blew Linux Mint on one of the boxen. The one on the far left (facing the wall) was unplugged, I plugged it back in but it was beeping whenever it booted, but just required that I open the case and clamp down the memory sticks, All Praise Cyber Jesus. Since I had revived box from the dead like Lazarus I felt like no one would object if I made it dual boot Linux as well as Windows 10. The machines are mostly empty and have 300-500 GB hard drives, so I hacked off 60 GB and copied a Debian 9 installation off of a flash drive, fixed the fstab, installed grub, and set the machine to boot Windoze by default. The USB wifi sticks are the only way for these things to get internet since there is no ethernet cable in that hallway, but I managed to get one working with Debian and it seems stable. So unless someone objects I propose to set the rest of the machines to boot automatically into Windows (and not require a PW when the screen blanks) and also, I'd whack off a small chunk of their hard drives so all the boxes dual boot Windows and Debian stable (except possibly the Mint box, it may have been installed to stomp on the whole drive).  It will give me something to do and keep me out of the sun. This will not adversely effect the Windows installations, which will still be available to do whatever folks do in that OS. Attached is a picture of the machine I mucked with, folks can go down there and play around with it. As those of you are wise in the ways of dual booting know, you can select Linux by using the "up arrow" key on the keyboard to scroll to the Debian 9 "grub" entry and hit the Enter key. It will automatically boot to a non-privileged "omni" account (PW: omnivore) and it will hang for a few seconds at the lightdm display manager to give you a chance to change the Linux desktop to taste (I configured it for mate, xfce, cinnamon & KDE, and could add other options if desired). You can also switch users to a "sudoroom" user, that has sudo privileges, the PW is the same as the username, except in drop case. In a world without Gates who needs Windows? 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