[ubuntu-uk] Running Ubuntu In Live Mode

[Dave Morley]

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On 07/02/13 10:43, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Having got my fingers burnt a couple of times in the past, I now
> never install a new version of Ubuntu, or any other distro, without
> running it first as a live CD or, more recently, from a USB stick.
> 
> It seems fairly inevitable that my next laptop will have UEFI
> embodied. Does anybody know how this affects the running of Linux
> in "live" mode? Is it simply that if the distro has been designed
> to cope with UEFI, its live mode will work (and vice versa), or is
> there more to it than that?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nige
> 
> 
You will need 12.10 on and the 64bit version is recommended.  Other
than that there are a couple of things you will need to know.

CD/DVD is more reliable than USB key  you can set the cd/dvd drive to
boot first and it will

Uefi has an annoying habit of trying to speed up the boot process this
means it does a quick scan on boot for a UEFI boot device and
preferably a secure boot instance and continues to boot from it
sometimes before the power has been provided to the usb key so it will
skip it all together.

Once you boot from where ever it will work as normal.  You get the
install or run live option and away you go.

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