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Hello,

Thanks very much for including me in the mailing list for this.  Since
I work nights during the week I have not been able to attend the 
meetings but if meetings are held on the right Tuesday (think that
they are Tuesdays) that I don't work I will be attending more.   

This question sort of relates to me wanting to set up my new ASUS
ROG series laptop to be both LINUX and Windows.  Initially, I am 
going to try running LINUX on a thumb drive.  

Reason for Linux is that I do not trust Windows for accessing the
internet but need to have Windows to run the Adobe software that
I hope to learn.

Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
To: Kevin Thomas <axel2078@gmail.com>
Cc: silug-discuss@silug.org
Sent: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:38:00 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: New pc build

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 02:36:52PM -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I'm in the middle of building a new pc and have some questions and
> thought this would be the perfect venue.  I'm building an ESXi server
> and I want to boot from a flash drive and I have two 1 TB drives I
> want to put in a RAID 1 for redundancy. The motherboard is an ASRock
> Z97 Extreme 6. This is the first board I've ever had that used UEFI
> instead of the old BIOS that I'm used too. I'm totally lost. It seems
> there are two ways to create the RAID; either by doing it within the
> UEFI firmware or through the Intel RAID configuration. I'm not sure
> which one I should use. 

The real question is which one ESXi supports.  (Most likely it will be
the Intel RAID configuration.)

> I've read that if you create it from UEFI then you can't boot from
> "legacy media" like cd/DVDs or flash drives formatted as MBR. Can
> someone clear this up for me? I'm way lost here. I need a dummies
> explanation. 

In most cases, UEFI isn't worth the trouble.  If you can just disable it
on the motherboard and boot from good, old-fashioned BIOS, you probably
should.

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