Installation alongside Windows 10 Home Edition

[Cody Smith]

I've run into this myself, the only reliable fix I've found is booting into
windows are disabling fast startup from the power songs in the control
panel and.
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 10:02 AM Ingolf Steinbach <ingolf.steinbach at gmail.com
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently attempting to install Kubuntu 18.04.1 on a HP Pavilion
> 15-cr0001ng notebook which came preinstalled with Windows 10 Home Edition.
> In preparation, I shrunk the C: drive to get some 400GB of free storage on
> the (single) HDD. I then booted the Kubuntu 18.04.1 DVD (via an external
> drive) downloaded from
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/18.04/release/kubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
>
> Unfortunately, the only options the installer offers are to use the entire
> disk (which I definitively do not want) or to do some manual "juggling"
> (which I'd like to avoid), see 01_installation_type.png
> <https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RurYPo9djb1wHYhe2YoAUu0ZblwLPn9U>.
>
> Both the "Installation type" and the "Prepare partitions" steps clearly
> show the Windows installation and also the free space intended for the
> Kubuntu installation (see also 02_prepare_partitions.png
> <https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m0ZKXkwOuZSfbRXS8dw5cjg1oMhVDrY5>);
> yet, there is no option to install Kubuntu alongside the Windows
> installation (without having to resort to manual modification of partitions.
>
> I also selected "Try Kubuntu" first, followed by an upgrade of packages
> via WiFi (hoping that maybe also the installer would be updated to a newer
> version). Without effect.
>
> Is automatic installation alongside Windows really not supported? Did I
> miss something?
>
> See attachments for the output of parted and efibootmgr.
>
>
> Two additional questions:
>
>    1. Is it possible to either install solely to the spare partition
>    (without *installing* grub but booting grub from the DVD and from there
>    starting the HDD based Kubuntu) or to remove grub later on (if I should
>    decide to revert to a Windows-only notebook)?
>    2. The live DVD did not detect the built-in WiFi (I had to use one
>    connected via USB instead) which is a RealTek RTL8821CE [10ec:c821] (see
>    attached lspci.txt). Is this expected?
>
> Thanks in advance for your support.
>
> Kind regards
> Ingolf
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