On 06/01/13 09:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Whoops no, I'm sorry, this machine is still Windows 8. Win 9 will be out
later this year. But anyway, reliable instructions.
On 06/01/2013 10:19, Rowan Berkeley 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.
Rowan,
I've followed this thread with interest right from the beginning as I
had the same problem when I purchased my Samsung NP350V5C-AOEUK with the
new Windows 8 OS last November. A large number of postings have been
made, most of them ignore the problem and many have gone off at a
tangent so I have skipped back to answer the corrected original posting.
I was aware of the problems being experienced with the new UEFI used on
W8 but was confident I'd find a solution and be able to install Ubuntu.
It took me several weeks but I succeeded by delving into the Ubuntu
forums, eventually I found a posting which explained you needed a
licence key which 12.04-1 LTS didn't have but that the newly released
12.10 64bit ISO does have. It has to be the 64bit and you need to use a
USB Flash Drive following the appropriate instructions on the Ubuntu
site and it worked and I have been dual booting and using Ubuntu for
over a month.
The posting also said that the 12.04-2 LTS release due out this month
will have the licence key which I am looking forward to so that I can go
back to the LTS version.
HTH, Regards, Ron.
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