On 6 January 2013 10:42, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 January 2013 09:38, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, it won't. > > Please don't top post, readers will have to look down to the end of > the email to find out what it is that won't what. > What happens when you tell it to boot off the CD?
I also meant to ask which image you are using (please give the full name of the image iso file). Colin > >> 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 >>> >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
