[SOLVED] Dual-booting Debian with Windows 8 on Acer E3-111?
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Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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Thanks EDDY1, the standard install disc does, indeed, allow me to install GRUB to my USB3 stick and, so, boot from it instead of the hard drive.
Unfortunately I am now having problems getting the Broadcom wireless networking to work under Debian so it looks like I'll be stuck with Debian in a VM for some time.
I suppose this is what one gets for buying cheap rubbish.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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Originally Posted by Timothy Miller
Which chip is it? A lot of the broadcom chips nowadays just need firmware to work.
I did install the firmware-linux-nonfree and a couple of Broadcom firmware packages too but still no joy.
After dealing with devices which just work with the non-free packages installed it is somewhat frustrating. I'm in the Windows install at the moment and it's downloading updates so I might not get a chance to check the chipset this evening unless I can workout how to list the hardware under Windows properly and not just get "Wireless Adaptor" when I look in Control Panel.
Thanks, I wasn't sure how up to date that was. I also feel a little uncomfortable downloadindg an installing something from a random dropbox type website. Not that I don't appreciate the effort people go to just that it's presented as a .deb file with no other explanation makes it look a little odd.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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I'm gong to mark this thread as solved since I had to ditch the piece of trash laptop and I would guess that the answers given would have allowed me to install Debian on it and get wireless working.
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