[ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

2015-06-20 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi All I'm installing Ubuntu 15.04 on a new computer - a cheap and cheerful Lenovo 50 Pentium from Ebuyer. I chose to install alongside Windows and resized the partition to give about 50GB to Windows and 329GB to Ubuntu. The install then seem to go well and got to the stage of removing unwanted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

2015-06-20 Thread Gareth France
Sounds like the pc has crashed to me. Only a reboot will sort that but I'm not sure how well the install would cope with that. You may need to start the reinstall again. On 20/06/15 21:32, Tony Pursell wrote: Hi All I'm installing Ubuntu 15.04 on a new computer - a cheap and cheerful Lenovo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

2015-06-20 Thread Tony Pursell
That's what I'm thinking. Rebooting now - keep your fingers crossed for me. On 20 June 2015 at 21:40, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Sounds like the pc has crashed to me. Only a reboot will sort that but I'm not sure how well the install would cope with that. You may need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

2015-06-20 Thread Tony Pursell
Well, its booted into Windows showing the reduced size Windows partition. This is the first time I have installed on a PC with EFI - is there something I should have done first? On 20 June 2015 at 21:54, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: That's what I'm thinking. Rebooting now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

2015-06-20 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/06/15 22:01, Tony Pursell wrote: Well, its booted into Windows showing the reduced size Windows partition. This is the first time I have installed on a PC with EFI - is there something I should have done first? Very definitely. You must boot in EFI mode. If you don't see a grub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

2015-06-20 Thread Tony Pursell
Currently, it boots to Ubuntu from a USB, if I have it plugged in, otherwise it boots into Widows 8.1. When booted using the live USB, the Ubuntu partition installed on the hard drive seems to be all there, although I wouldn't know if some files were missing. On 20 June 2015 at 22:25, Barry

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help! - problem installing Ubuntu

2015-06-20 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/06/15 23:42, Tony Pursell wrote: Currently, it boots to Ubuntu from a USB, if I have it plugged in, otherwise it boots into Widows 8.1. When booted using the live USB, the Ubuntu partition installed on the hard drive seems to be all there, although I wouldn't know if some files The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

2015-06-20 Thread Andres
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