On 12/13/2012 10:41 AM, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:00:01AM +1100, Jesse Stevens wrote: >> Hey people, >> >> We're looking at replacing an aging workhorse Samsung laptop we use >> for lots of video transcoding with Ubuntu and occasionally having to >> boot into Windows 7 for some ugly BrightAuthor usage. >> >> We want to get one of the new Alienware M14x laptops but it appears >> most come preinstalled with Windows 8 when buying them off the shelf. >> >> I remember a while back people talking about secure booting and EFI >> madness. Does anyone have any information that might help inform this >> decision as ideally we'd install Ubuntu the moment we bought the >> laptop, and occasionally still dual boot over to Windows. We may >> change and start to use VirtualBox in future but for now this is the >> ideal setup. >> >> Does anyone know if simply by coming preloaded with Windows 8 this >> causes problems with installing Ubuntu and Grub? I've googled of >> course but I'm looking for real world experience answers rather than >> links. Especially if anyone has this particular laptop... >> >> It's so boring having to think about Windows at all these days.. > I've seen one case [1] of a Ubuntu/Win 8 dual-boot on a Lenovo laptop; whether > this install was done as ordinary mortals do is not clear. > > >From my personal experience, you can only have Windows 8 and Ubuntu on the > >same > machine on separate drives [2]. This install was done in the bog standard way. > > Sam > --- > (Sam Varghese)
> Frankly that is how I would do it, 2 separate drives. It's arguably more > cumbersome but when windows fails you still have a working laptop. Roger _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
