[plug] [plug-ctte] [Committee] Installing linux on Win 8 PC

[Lucas van staden]

Hey Fred,

You can download one of the popular Linux Distro's, boot of the cd/dvd and
just follow the install procedure.
Most modern linux install processes will deal with the windows partition,
and allow you to dual boot. (and set that up for you)

Not had any experience with Win 8 yet (don't think I will), thus I cannot
say 100% if dual boot setup works with it out-the-box like that, or if you
need to do 'stuff' to make it work.

As a first time linux user, I would highly recommend Linux Mint as your
first step. From experience I had found that windows users find it easy to
adapt to that distro.

ref: http://www.linuxmint.com/

Welcome to Linux.

-Lucas



On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Paul Del <p at delfante.it> wrote:

> Hey Fred
>
> Please send your emails to the mailing list. Not committee ;-)
> http://plug.org.au/resources/mailing-list
>
> If your wanting to install Linux on a notebook all good.
> Make sure you include brand/model/type of your notebook
>
> There may be a problem with this new secure boot being locked to Ms Windows
> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/microsoft_secure_boot.html
>
> There is guys in the group who will know more about that
> Ciao
>
> >
> >
> Hi Perth Linux Guru's,
> Apologies if I am using the wrong forum for this but I have only just
> discovered your site ;)
> I have recently bought a Win 8 notebook PC and want to install Linux on it
> so that i can have the choice of using Windows or Linux as the OS.  I
> understabd that this is not very straight forward as Win has a security set
> - up which needs to be turned off and my research on the net has not been
> conclusive.  I have not used linux yet but would like to. Can you pse
> advise on this subject?
> Kind Rgds,
> Fred
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:27 PM, <chieftiff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fred sent a message using the contact form at
>> http://www.plug.org.au/contact**.
>>
>> Hi Perth Linux Guru's,
>> Apologies if I am using the wrong forum for this but I have only just
>> discovered your site ;)
>> I have recently bought a Win 8 notebook PC and want to install Linux on
>> it so that i can have the choice of using Windows or Linux as the OS.  I
>> understabd that this is not very straight forward as Win has a security set
>> - up which needs to be turned off and my research on the net has not been
>> conclusive.  I have not used linux yet but would like to. Can you pse
>> advise on this subject?
>> Kind Rgds,
>> Fred
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