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

[Gareth France]

On 06/01/13 09:46, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> 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.
>
And I find bottom posting extremely annoying. It means each post is 
slightly more long winded to reply to than the last. So I just follow 
the example of the previous poster.