[xubuntu-users] New laptop, Xubuntu and UEFI

[Tyler Longren]

I would assume it'll take care of the UEFI partition automatically. I did
the manual partitioning, so that's why I had to manually do it.

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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Neil Winchurst <neilwin at drofle.co.uk>wrote:

> On 24/06/13 04:12, Tyler Longren wrote:
>
>> All seems good. Writing this email from Xubuntu on my x55c. Just be sure
>> to set your boot device to /dev/sda (the mbr) when setting up
>> partitions. As well as ensuring you've got an EFI Boot Partition of at
>> least 35MB created.
>>
>> I have never been so in love with this laptop. Everything just works,
>> even wifi.
>>
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>>  Thanks for that. I note the bit about an EFI partition. However I am
> planning to install Xubuntu 13.04 which is UEFI ready, I believe. So I am
> going to let it do the partitioning for me. That is, it should find that
> Win 8 is already installed and ask me if I want to run Xubuntu alongside it
> or to replace it. I will choose to replace it, to use the whole disk, thus
> removing Win 8 completely. So I do not plan to be setting up partitions
> myself.
>
> I assume here that Xubuntu will therefore deal with setting up a UEFI
> partition for me as necessary. This laptop is going to be a back up machine
> in case of a failure of my desktop or the wife's laptop. Also it will be
> for testing out new versions of Linux as they appear and learning to deal
> with UEFI.
>
> If the above plan does not work I will have to start again and do the
> partitioning as you suggest.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
>
> Neil
>
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