Thanks Gordon & Tom I'm afraid that the 40 minutes suggested is rather more than a tad optmistic e.g.
Items 1-5 inc will each take me some considerable time i.e. they all involve me far beyond my comfort zone! But thanks for trying to help ATB Philip Jordan On 28 January 2015 at 17:33, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 28/01/15 17:06, Philip Jordan wrote: > > & how long to do what where when etc please ref Ubuntu.....? > > > > here's the definitive guide: > http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:All#Dual-Booting_Windows_and_Ubuntu > There's a lot of information on that page. > In Brief: > > 1. Ensure you have a Windows Recovery media and have backed up all > data. (Not that I've ever had anything go wrong, but you never know!( > 2. Download the Ubuntu iso and create a bootable USB stick (or CD/DVD > - the USB stick is more convenient and flexible IMHO). > 3. Boot up from the USB stick and you can try Ubuntu without making > any changes to your computer, to see if you like it! > 4. If you do, create free disk space on your C drive using Windows > Disk management. > 5. The only slightly complicated thing to do is to create the > partitions - do NOT let the Ubuntu installer do that automatically. > > Hope that helps. > the total time to install (depending on your internet connection) should > be <40 mins....including LibreOfice. > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
