On 7 February 2013 11:08, Dave Morley <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/02/13 10:43, Nigel Verity wrote: >> Hi >> >> Having got my fingers burnt a couple of times in the past, I now >> never install a new version of Ubuntu, or any other distro, without >> running it first as a live CD or, more recently, from a USB stick. >> >> It seems fairly inevitable that my next laptop will have UEFI >> embodied. Does anybody know how this affects the running of Linux >> in "live" mode? Is it simply that if the distro has been designed >> to cope with UEFI, its live mode will work (and vice versa), or is >> there more to it than that? >> >> Thanks >> >> Nige >> >> > You will need 12.10 on and the 64bit version is recommended. Other > than that there are a couple of things you will need to know. > > CD/DVD is more reliable than USB key you can set the cd/dvd drive to > boot first and it will
I thought I had read that, at least on some machines, only USB would work with UEFI. Also it /must/ be the 64 bit version of ubuntu 12.10. Colin > > Uefi has an annoying habit of trying to speed up the boot process this > means it does a quick scan on boot for a UEFI boot device and > preferably a secure boot instance and continues to boot from it > sometimes before the power has been provided to the usb key so it will > skip it all together. > > Once you boot from where ever it will work as normal. You get the > install or run live option and away you go. > > - -- > You make it, I'll break it! > > I love my job :) > http://www.ubuntu.com > http://www.canonical.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlETizcACgkQT5xqyT+h3OhQ/ACgnIdH9lX6gwjq/bIDn5gDP61M > 43oAn2kDxWDjv+hfUdOq5dgXDY+c2mJ4 > =i/tF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > [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/
