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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 06/01/2013 11:42, Colin Law wrote:
> 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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Sorry, I'd forgotten. Won't do it again.