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
On 07/01/2013 11:52, Ron Rhodes wrote:
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
Ha ha, I've managed it. The last message was precisely to the point. You
MUST use a USB stick, and the latest version only (12.10). I took a
chance and installed it instead of Windows, rather than alongside
Windows, but it seems to be working perfectly, so far.
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On 7 January 2013 14:12, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Ha ha, I've managed it. The last message was precisely to the point. You
MUST use a USB stick, and the latest version only (12.10). I took a chance
and installed it instead of Windows, rather than alongside Windows, but it
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
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?
On 6 January 2013 09:19, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com 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
No, it won't. Nor will the online self-installer work. This is
apparently the case with all Windows 8 users who try to do it. They have
to do a lot of manual work to make it possible, with partitions. Since
this has become a standard issue, there should be a step by step
procedure for it in
You could start by formatting the drive. It won't achieve anything but I
hate windows 8 so much I'd feel better for that step alone!
On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
No, it won't. Nor will the online self-installer work. This is
apparently the case with all Windows 8 users who try to
On 6 January 2013 09:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it won't.
Please don't top post, readers will have to look down to the end of
the email to find out what it is that won't what.
What happens when you tell it to boot off the CD?
Colin
Nor will the online
Yes, it's pretty vile. It seems to think of itself primarily as an
online shopping arcade.
On 06/01/2013 11:39, Gareth France wrote:
You could start by formatting the drive. It won't achieve anything but
I hate windows 8 so much I'd feel better for that step alone!
On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan
On 06/01/2013 11:42, Colin Law wrote:
On 6 January 2013 09:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it won't.
Please don't top post, readers will have to look down to the end of
the email to find out what it is that won't what.
What happens when you tell it to boot off the CD?
On 6 January 2013 10:42, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 6 January 2013 09:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it won't.
Please don't top post, readers will have to look down to the end of
the email to find out what it is that won't what.
What happens when you
On 06/01/13 09:46, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 06/01/2013 11:42, Colin Law wrote:
On 6 January 2013 09:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com
wrote:
No, it won't.
Please don't top post, readers will have to look down to the end of
the email to find out what it is that won't what.
What
On 06/01/2013 11:45, Colin Law wrote:
On 6 January 2013 10:42, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 6 January 2013 09:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it won't.
Please don't top post, readers will have to look down to the end of
the email to find out what it is
On 06/01/2013 11:47, Gareth France wrote:
And I find bottom posting extremely annoying. It means each post is
slightly more long winded to reply to than the last. So I just follow
the example of the previous poster.
OK, I'll clip them down to the immediate precursor message, like this.
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WUBI is fine with Windows 8
I'm running it here...
Just install it from Windows.
Sean
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On 06/01/2013 12:03, Sean Miller wrote:
WUBI is fine with Windows 8
I'm running it here...
Just install it from Windows.
Sean
How do you mean, from Windows? Do you mean, from inside Windows, as
opposed to changing the boot order so that the machine attempts to boot
from the disk instead of
On 06/01/2013 12:03, Sean Miller wrote:
WUBI is fine with Windows 8
I'm running it here...
Just install it from Windows.
Sean
Actually, I've tried that, but not with the disk; I've tried it with
what I called the 'self installer'. This is the procedure Ubuntu offer
as the easy way because
On 06/01/13 09:53, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 06/01/2013 11:47, Gareth France wrote:
And I find bottom posting extremely annoying. It means each post is
slightly more long winded to reply to than the last. So I just follow
the example of the previous poster.
OK, I'll clip them down to the
On 6 Jan 2013 11:32, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2013 12:03, Sean Miller wrote:
WUBI is fine with Windows 8
I'm running it here...
Just install it from Windows.
Sean
Actually, I've tried that, but not with the disk; I've tried it with what
I called the
On 6 January 2013 10:33, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
But I get exactly the same result: it seems to complete the installation
process and tells you to restart, you get a screen asking whether you want
to boot into Windows or Ubuntu, and when you try to boot into Ubuntu you
On 6 January 2013 10:33, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I've tried that, but not with the disk; I've tried it with
what I called the 'self installer'. This is the procedure Ubuntu offer as
the easy way because it skips the CD stage altogether, it just downloads
On 06/01/2013 13:37, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 Jan 2013 11:32, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com
mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2013 12:03, Sean Miller wrote:
WUBI is fine with Windows 8
I'm running it here...
Just install it from Windows.
Sean
Actually,
On 6 January 2013 12:07, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Compaq CQ58
Takes a mere Google to find
http://orrinfox.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-12-10-x64-running-on-CQ58-340364493
so it's likely that 12.04 won't work and you'll need this Ubuntu Secure
remix or at least the
On 06/01/2013 14:12, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 January 2013 12:07, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com
mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Compaq CQ58
Takes a mere Google to find
http://orrinfox.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-12-10-x64-running-on-CQ58-340364493
so it's likely
On 06/01/2013 14:12, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 January 2013 12:07, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com
mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Compaq CQ58
Takes a mere Google to find
http://orrinfox.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-12-10-x64-running-on-CQ58-340364493
so it's likely
On 6 January 2013 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2013 14:12, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 January 2013 12:07, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Compaq CQ58
Takes a mere Google to find
On 06/01/2013 14:39, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 January 2013 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com
mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2013 14:12, Simon Greenwood wrote:
I would download the ISO and you can either burn it to DVD or
create an bootable USB
On 6 January 2013 12:53, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2013 14:39, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 January 2013 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2013 14:12, Simon Greenwood wrote:
I would download the ISO and you can either burn it
On 06/01/2013 14:59, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Check for any additional instructions on the original link and on the
Sourceforge page. This is just something I found so I have no idea how
it works.
Well, I burned it, stuck it in, and tried to boot from it at start-up,
but I ended up at the
On 06/01/13 14:28, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 06/01/2013 14:59, Simon Greenwood wrote:Well, I burned it, stuck it
in, and tried to boot from it at start-up, but I ended up at the same
place: unable to load because of files missing or corrupted, or
something identical in essence. So I guess I'm
On 06/01/2013 17:02, Barry Drake wrote:
On 06/01/13 14:28, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Well, I burned it, stuck it in, and tried to boot from it at
start-up, but I ended up at the same place: unable to load because
of files missing or corrupted, or something identical in essence. So
I guess I'm
On 06/01/13 15:15, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Yup, I think so, I mean I've been into them a dozen times and I
haven't seen anything that looks as helpful as that. When I started
trying to do this, I found a chat forum where someone explained just
how difficult it really is, though I can't find it
On 06/01/2013 17:03, Barry Drake wrote:
My gut feeling is that creating partitions etc is still not going to
have any effect. My understanding of UEFI is that the BIOS monitors
anything that is trying to install and rejects all bootable files
unless they are signed in a way that allows
On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
No, it won't.
That's probably because your Windows 8 machine has UEFI - aka secure
boot. You need to disable secure boot before you can boot from anything
other than the HDD...
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On 06/01/13 10:47, Gareth France wrote:
And I find bottom posting extremely annoying. It means each post is
slightly more long winded to reply to than the last. So I just follow
the example of the previous poster.
Then people need to SNIP.
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GBP's
On 06/01/2013 18:50, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
No, it won't.
That's probably because your Windows 8 machine has UEFI - aka secure
boot. You need to disable secure boot before you can boot from
anything other than the HDD...
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I did that. And I switched off the quick boot option in the Windows
8 Control Panel. too -- this is another essential which other
sufferers might miss because it isn't part of the boot options. i
think I did all the things recommended by those who say it should boot
given these settings are
On 06/01/2013 19:26, Bill Baker wrote:
Rowan, at this point I would - *if my machine* - see if I could boot a
gparted live disk or similar trash the disk. If you have a machine
that should play [perhaps having backed up the w* elsewhere if
really wanted and external disk available] but
On 06/01/13 19:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
You mean, turn it into a 'naked computer', without any resident
operating system at all. But the BIOS firmware is designed by
Microsoft to prevent undesired operating system software from being
loaded, and that would still be there, in ROM.
Correct.
On 06/01/2013 19:46, Barry Drake wrote:
On 06/01/13 19:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
You mean, turn it into a 'naked computer', without any resident
operating system at all. But the BIOS firmware is designed by
Microsoft to prevent undesired operating system software from being
loaded, and that
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 19:55 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 06/01/13 19:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
You mean, turn it into a 'naked computer', without any resident
operating system at all. But the BIOS firmware is designed by
Microsoft to prevent undesired operating system software from
The ongoing stuff with UEFI has the most recent update on the wiki here
[1]. There are also discussions on the ubuntuforum [2]
As with others, the proviso is that I haven't tried these methods, but both
the wiki and forum thread seem to be well supported with updates (for the
Wiki) and ongoing
On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I am still wrestling with it, actually, having acquired this machine
only yesterday. I wasn't aware of how Windows have made it difficult to
install anything else.
Commiserations.
May I respectfully suggest that you can do many others around you a
On 06/01/2013 20:32, Phill Whiteside wrote:
The ongoing stuff with UEFI has the most recent update on the wiki
here [1]. There are also discussions on the ubuntuforum [2]
As with others, the proviso is that I haven't tried these methods, but
both the wiki and forum thread seem to be well
On 06/01/2013 20:32, Phill Whiteside wrote:
The ongoing stuff with UEFI has the most recent update on the wiki
here [1]. There are also discussions on the ubuntuforum [2]
As with others, the proviso is that I haven't tried these methods, but
both the wiki and forum thread seem to be well
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