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

[Albert Westra]

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From: Nick Els <jjstccean at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 7, 2015, 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu-Gnome on an Acer V5-171 Notebook win 10.
To: Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com>


I did through the F12 key and showing the available boot devices. With UEFI
turned on no boot devices are available - very strange I'd say.



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On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Albert Westra <odysseywestra at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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