[ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

[Gareth France]

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 security features in the 
> BIOS or not. If she did, it says wonders for the 12.10 64-bit package, 
> that it can really do all that by itself. I shall try to get an 
> unambiguous yes or no from her on this.
>
64bit Ubuntu 12.10 can install itself on a modern machine with all the 
security (lol) features enabled. it's supposed to do that. If she 
created the USB stick wrong that is probably the reason it didn't work. 
Although I don't really understand how you can install from an 
incorrectly made stick.