Fwd: Installing Ubuntu-Gnome on an Acer V5-171 Notebook win 10.

[Albert Westra]

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From: Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu-Gnome on an Acer V5-171 Notebook win 10.
To: <jjstccean at telkomsa.net>


Have you tried manually selecting the device during boot up. Dose it detect
the USB drive within the firmware?

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 1:18 AM Nick Els <jjstccean at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've done all that, including turning off/on UEFI and using Rufus as well
> as Lili USB creator.
>
> Thank you.
>
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> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would try turning on UEFI and see what happens and probably see if
>> using Rufus to create the usbLive image will help.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015, 11:20 PM Nick Els <jjstccean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not able to get the Ubuntu-Gnome setup to run from the USB stick.
>>>
>>> I've disabled UEFI in the bios and disabled windows 10 fast start
>>> feature.
>>>
>>> when selecting the USB stick as the boot source then the boot source is
>>> being accessed the screen changes to black with the cursor sitting at the
>>> top left blinking - nothing happens, even waiting for 5 minutes.
>>>
>>> Installed the stick using unetbootin-windows-613
>>>
>>> Any suggestions, help will be appreciated.
>>>
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