You could start by formatting the drive. It won't achieve anything but I
hate windows 8 so much I'd feel better for that step alone!
On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
No, it won't. Nor will the online self-installer work. This is
apparently the case with all Windows 8 users who try to do it. They
have to do a lot of manual work to make it possible, with partitions.
Since this has become a standard issue, there should be a step by step
procedure for it in the official or semi-official Ubuntu documentation
by now, but I can't find any such thing. All I found was various
descriptions on random chat lists here and there.
Apologies again for having called it Windows 9. It really is Windows
8. I am still wrestling with it, actually, having acquired this
machine only yesterday. I wasn't aware of how Windows have made it
difficult to install anything else.
On 06/01/2013 11:29, Colin Law wrote:
On 6 January 2013 09:19, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello again,
Can anybody recommend a reliable set of online instructions for
installing
Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9? Neither the online installer nor
the
live CD will work. I found some instructions for doing it on Windows 8,
somewhere on line, and they were pretty complex, involving manually
creating
partitions and start points. But I shall do it if I am sure it is
reliable.
Windows 9 being the latest Windows build, they've made it even
harder than
before, but it must be doable.
What is the problem that you have? Will it boot off the live CD?
Colin
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