XPS13
Resizing Windows
Because of the pagination it is not easy to resize a partition to something useful. So lets disable pagination:
- Start -> Double click on File Explorer-> Propierties
- Avanced configuration -> Avanced options -> Performance -> Configuration
- Avanced options -> Virtual Memory -> Change
- Take notice of Minimum, recomenden and asigned values for future
- Disable admin automatically .... .
- Accept, Accept, Accept, Accept
Restart
In order to make it more efficient:
- Clear all temportal files, trash, ....
- Remove content of c:\windows\Softwaredistribution\downloads
Defrag (a good tool is ultradefrag)
Resize (use windows tool without problem).
Restart
Re-Enable virtual memory according to the previous settngs
Installing Debian
Working on BIOS
The BIOS is our maain tool to allow linux to be installed in the laptop.
Because of the UEFI, the SecureBoot, the SATA operation and so on, there are many difficulties to install linux on the laptop. UEFI is quite OK with new debian (Debian 8), but there are still some stuff to tune.
After some trial/errors I managed to get something working, although may be some more efficient configurations:
When booting the laptop press F2.
The main settings you must modify in BIOS are:
- System Configuration -> SATA Operation The laptop comes with a RAID On <i> and it must be changed to AHCI .
Notice that this will prevent the system to load in Windows, so if you want dual-boot you need to be on RAID on for Windows and AHCI for Linux.
- System Configuration -> USB/Thunderbolt Configuration It happened to me that while installing linux the USB-C to Ethernet adapter was working, but once linux on I could not get it to work. By selecting Security level - No Security it worked.
- System Configuration -> USB PowerShare To allow the charging of devices. </ul>
