On Wed, 11 May 2016 19:11:11 +0100 Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:42:31PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
Unfortunately, linux isn't yet installed on that machine and appears to be having problems doing so. It complains about miscalculation on the size of the Windows partition. As I don't want a /home partition on there, I thought I would create the partitions manually but even doing that it fails.
Getting a live usb boot on there should be possible and still faster than taking it apart.
There appears to be another issue which might be down to me, or the machine. This is the first time I've had a machine with a UEFI BIOS and despite setting the DVD drive to UEFI, it always seems to select the non UEFI mode instead.
So I think a trip into Wymondham sometime today to buy myself a large(ish) USB stick to practice with is in order.
I'll have to fit that in round a furniture delivery so it might have to wait until tomorrow to make any further progress.
I looked at this page - https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_on_systems_with_UEFI_firmware - which demonstrates that the machine has booted into the correct mode and most of the time, the new one doesn't.
I've also grabbed the 'handbook' from the Asus site to see if there's anything in that to help. If in doubt, RTFM ;-)