On 19/02/13 17:40, Gareth France wrote:
On 19/02/13 17:14, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she
had to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the
first time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful
installa
On 19/02/13 17:14, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she
had to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the
first time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful
installation without having disabled all the se
My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she had
to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the first
time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful
installation without having disabled all the security features in the
BIOS or not. If sh
On 18/02/13 22:39, Alan Bell wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:43, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
He says: "Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the
traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows
8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have a 200 m
On 15/02/13 17:43, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
He says: "Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the
traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows
8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have a 200 millisecond (that’s 0.2
seconds) windo
My friend in Denmark has finally got into the BIOS on her Fujitsu
machine (the one on she installed Ubuntu to replace Windows 8 without
making the necessary alterations in the BIOS settings first), by hitting
F2 when she sees the Fujitsu logo. She has sent me a series of photos of
the screens.
On 15/02/13 18:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:40, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that
On 15/02/13 17:40, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
Windows
On 15 February 2013 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 15/02/13 17:34, Gareth France wrote:
>>
>> On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
>>> Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
>>
On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
He says: "Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the
traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows
8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have a 200 millisecond (that’s 0.2
seconds) window of opportunity to press the key com
On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:34, Gareth France wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given
On 15/02/13 17:34, Gareth France wrote:
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
Win
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
Windows 8 machinery for getting into UEFI us
Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the
>> Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu
>> 12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the
>> Windows 8 machinery for getting into UEFI us no longer there, how in fact
>> wo
On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 15/02/13 16:44, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 13:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
"Windows 7 won't solve the problem, because it won't give you access to
UEFI.
What does that mean? UEFI is something which Windows 7, Windows 8,
64-bit Ubuntu, Fedora and prob
On 15/02/13 16:44, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15/02/13 13:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
"Windows 7 won't solve the problem, because it won't give you access to
UEFI.
What does that mean? UEFI is something which Windows 7, Windows 8,
64-bit Ubuntu, Fedora and probably other Linux distros support. It's
bak
On 15/02/13 13:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
"Windows 7 won't solve the problem, because it won't give you access to
UEFI.
What does that mean? UEFI is something which Windows 7, Windows 8,
64-bit Ubuntu, Fedora and probably other Linux distros support. It's
baked into the machine just like the B
On 15/02/13 13:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I managed to get back in touch with my luckless friend in Denmark. She
said she was thinking of installing Windows 7 on the machine, which
she thought would give her access to BIOS. I replied as below.
Comments and corrections will be welcome, since afte
I managed to get back in touch with my luckless friend in Denmark. She
said she was thinking of installing Windows 7 on the machine, which she
thought would give her access to BIOS. I replied as below. Comments and
corrections will be welcome, since after all I know very little.
"Windows 7 won
On 14/02/13 19:29, Dave Morley wrote:
On 14/02/13 19:24, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote:
On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it
and tried to i
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On 14/02/13 19:24, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote:
>> On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>>> An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
>>> reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on
On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote:
On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and
tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my
detailed explanations and warni
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On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
>> reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and
>> tried to install Ubunt
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On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
>> reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and
>> tried to install Ubunt
On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Hi,
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach)
just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to
install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my detailed explanations
and warnings about this. She now has no Win
Hi,
An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach)
just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to
install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my detailed explanations
and warnings about this. She now has no Windows 8 and no Ubuntu, just a
GRUB scre
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