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

[Ron Rhodes]

On 06/01/13 09:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Whoops no, I'm sorry, this machine is still Windows 8. Win 9 will be out
> later this year. But anyway, reliable instructions.
>
> On 06/01/2013 10:19, Rowan Berkeley 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.
>
>
Rowan,

I've followed this thread with interest right from the beginning as I 
had the same problem when I purchased my Samsung NP350V5C-AOEUK with the 
new Windows 8 OS last November. A large number of postings have been 
made, most of them ignore the problem and many have gone off at a 
tangent so I have skipped back to answer the corrected original posting.

I was aware of the problems being experienced with the new UEFI used on 
W8 but was confident I'd find a solution and be able to install Ubuntu. 
It took me several weeks but I succeeded by delving into the Ubuntu 
forums, eventually I found a posting which explained you needed a 
licence key which 12.04-1 LTS didn't have but that the newly released 
12.10 64bit ISO does have. It has to be the 64bit and you need to use a 
USB Flash Drive following the appropriate instructions on the Ubuntu 
site and it worked and I have been dual booting and using Ubuntu for 
over a month.

The posting also said that the 12.04-2 LTS release due out this month 
will have the licence key which I am looking forward to so that I can go 
back to the LTS version.

HTH, Regards, Ron.