On 02/01/18 20:52, leegold wrote:
in addition it says: gpt
All I can offer is what I found when installing on a Dell XPS 15
GPT is some type of partition format, I think. I had to use gparted
while booted from the USB in order to reformat with gpt.
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018, at 11:50 AM, leegold wrote:
What should I know to install 16.04 64 onto a Toshiba laptop with UEFI?
I was told several times (and I had concluded anyway) that I should
*not* use UEFI.
Or should I install newest non-LTS 17.10 version (but I read there were
some nasty issues with UEFI and 17.10).
Do I need to disable secure boot? Assume I do.
I set the BOOS to secure boot disabled, and legacy boot enabled (ie no
UEFI). That worked.
Shrunk C: for Linux space. The HD has 5 partitions. From “left to right”:
300MB Recovery
100MB EFI System
C: 500GB “where the exiting Win10 lives”
92GB Unallocated, gained from shrinking C:, aim to put / and swap
parts. there.
891MB Recovery
My assumption would be that the 4th partition is the one that needs
establishing as GPT before formatting. But I may have misunderstood
this, as I was using the whole disk.
From what I read Grub has to “play nice” with EFI. My question is, when
I install, where do I install Grub? What do I do? I see an EFI partition
and don’t want to “hose” anything. There are lots of recopies and
concoctions when I google.
I don't know the answer to this as it's a dual boot. I assume that Linux
installers will see that Windows is installed, and put a working Grub on
the boot area of the primary partition. Apparently in a single-install
(Linux-only), the installers no longer create a boot partition but
install Grub on the main partition.
But again, this is largely guesswork on my part — as you say, the web
pages disagree wildly.
///Peter
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