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

[Rowan Berkeley]

Yes, it's pretty vile. It seems to think of itself primarily as an 
online shopping arcade.

On 06/01/2013 11:39, Gareth France wrote:
> You could start by formatting the drive. It won't achieve anything but 
> I hate windows 8 so much I'd feel better for that step alone!
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> On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> No, it won't. 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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