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

[Gareth France]

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!

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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