funny as I wrote the original post about installation of Fedora on a HP with no O.S. and now it has moved to the fact that Windows installation was not broken....
2015-12-29 7:08 GMT+01:00 Robin Laing <me...@telusplanet.net>: > On 2015-12-28 08:14, maderios wrote: > >> I've had that on a work laptop (also an HP). You can try to disable >>> secure boot in the UEFI screen, or you can try and tell the USB stick >>> to treat the laptop like a BIOS machine. >>> The problem is that changing those settings now will break the existing >>> Windows install. >>> >>> Hi >> On a recent laptop, Asus X751L, I disabled secure boot. It didn't break >> windows8 install (to keep warranty) at all. >> >> > Three laptops installed Fedora dual boot with UEFI and F21 and F23 without > Windows. > > All KDE from USB stick. > As the partition table has no Windows OS on it, why not just wipe the > whole thing and start from scratch. Let the installer partition the drive > as needed or manually partition. > > Linux works great with GPT (had issues with a SSD though) on spinning > disks. Used it on all newly formatted disks on all my machines. Use gdisk > instead of fdisk. > > Installed F23 KDE on a machine yesterday (twice) with no issues. Wiped > all partitions and created all new partitions manually (hate LVM). > Installed the second time due to no encryption the first time. > > It was very fast as we didn't start till after supper. > > Just make sure to create the EFI partition if you partition manually. > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 Linux Fedora 23 (Workstation) inviato da Gmail
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