On 07/01/2013 11:52, Ron Rhodes wrote:
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.
Yes indeed. I saw one intimation on the main recommended Ubuntu
Community page about UEFI that said it had to be a flash drive, not a
CD/DVD, but it was just an isolated reference; the entire page goes on
talking about CD/DVDs, which after all are more familiar to most of us.
I shall get a USB stick and shove the 12.10 onto it, plug it in, try to
boot from it, and see what happens.
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