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

[Rowan Berkeley]

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
>