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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 19/02/13 17:40, Gareth France wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah, I'm saying she had to make the stick again.