[ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9

[Colin Law]

On 6 January 2013 09:38, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, it won't.

Please don't top post, readers will have to look down to the end of
the email to find out what it is that won't what.
What happens when you tell it to boot off the CD?

Colin

> Nor will the online self-installer work. This is apparently
> the case with all Windows 8 users who try to do it. They have to do a lot of
> manual work to make it possible, with partitions. Since this has become a
> standard issue, there should be a step by step procedure for it in the
> official or semi-official Ubuntu documentation by now, but I can't find any
> such thing. All I found was various descriptions on random chat lists here
> and there.
>
> Apologies again for having called it Windows 9. It really is Windows 8. I am
> still wrestling with it, actually, having acquired this machine only
> yesterday. I wasn't aware of how Windows have made it difficult to install
> anything else.
>
>
> On 06/01/2013 11:29, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 6 January 2013 09:19, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> Can anybody recommend a reliable set of online instructions for
>>> installing
>>> Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9? Neither the online installer nor the
>>> live CD will work. I found some instructions for doing it on Windows 8,
>>> somewhere on line, and they were pretty complex, involving manually
>>> creating
>>> partitions and start points. But I shall do it if I am sure it is
>>> reliable.
>>> Windows 9 being the latest Windows build, they've made it even harder
>>> than
>>> before, but it must be doable.
>>
>> What is the problem that you have?  Will it boot off the live CD?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
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