Re: [AI] windows 8.1 os and linux.

2014-08-04 Thread Naushad C A.
Newer systems are using uefi firmware interface. It is somewhat difficult to install linux on uefi enabled computer, from the perspective of a blind computer user. I am pasting some of the fixes I collected from around the web, for my personal use. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)

Re: [AI] windows 8.1 os and linux.

2014-08-04 Thread Pranav Lal
Hi, Keep Windows as your base operating system. Use Linux in a virtual machine. Alternatively, you could buy a shell account online from a provider such as bHost and use a terminal emulator to access it. Pranav -Original Message- From: AccessIndia

Re: [AI] windows 8.1 os and linux.

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Pinto
the best way to prevent any problems is to disible uefi but once u disible uefi u will need to convert your partitions from gpt to mbr as bios cannot boot from gpt so u will have to reinstall windows 8 and once u do that u can install ubuntu as normal On 8/5/14, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com

Re: [AI] windows 8.1 os and linux.

2014-08-04 Thread Naushad C A.
You are telling about duel firmware systems. We cannot disable uefy in most of the modern systems. On 8/5/2014 6:20 AM, Austin Pinto wrote: the best way to prevent any problems is to disible uefi but once u disible uefi u will need to convert your partitions from gpt to mbr as bios cannot

Re: [AI] windows 8.1 os and linux.

2014-08-04 Thread Naushad C A.
Fire ssh is a free browser based terminal plugin for mozilla firefox. On 8/5/2014 5:41 AM, Pranav Lal wrote: Hi, Keep Windows as your base operating system. Use Linux in a virtual machine. Alternatively, you could buy a shell account online from a provider such as bHost and use a terminal

Re: [AI] windows 8.1 os and linux.

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Pinto
we can disible uefi in dell when u start your computer press f2 to go to the bios then security settings and there is an option disible uefi and disible secure boot On 8/5/14, Naushad C A. naushadcharivila...@gmail.com wrote: Fire ssh is a free browser based terminal plugin for mozilla firefox.

Re: [AI] windows 8.1 os and linux.

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Pinto
the only problem is once u do that u will have to re format your system as if u try to boot with uefi disibled u will get an error no boot device found and again if u enable uefi u will have to format your system On 8/5/14, Austin Pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com wrote: we can disible uefi in