Launch the installer, and follow the instructions. That is the problem. Hi Bayou Bengal, Thanks for the welcome! Yes I am installing the iso file I downloaded from SourceForge. Joined Apr 6, Messages 2, Reaction score 2, Credits Gold Supporter. Joined Apr 30, Messages 6, Reaction score 5, Credits 21, Hi torben I am inclined to keep my great big giant bib out of this as too many cooks spoil the broth and you are in good hands However, I do wonder, with the Aspire notebook, are you using the trackpad on it for point and click or do you have a mouse plugged in?
Could be a hardware issue? Me out of here disappears in a puff of smoke. Wizard BTW - seriously, are you really closer to 82 than 81? That is huge embracing Linux makes us sexagenarians look tame. However, I do wonder, with the Aspire notebook, are you using the trackpad on it for point and click or do you have a mouse plugged in? Hi, I am traveling at the moment - I will be back on thursday regards torben. Have a safe journey! You're right: it's a driver problem.
But can't fix that until you can boot Linux. Did you go with openMandriva, or something else? When you start the computer, before Windows starts, you should see some options for "Setup" and "Boot Menu". The boot menu is often F12 on Acer, but it could be something else.
Try that and see if Linux is available from there. Another option is to go into Setup and look at the boot order. If Linux is there, you should be able to move it ahead of Windows. Save the changes and reboot. Hi atanere, I tried the F12, but it only has 1 entry in the boot option manager: 1. Windows Boot Manager 2. It is as if Windows does'nt know what has happened to it.
Maybe that is obvious once I see it. I did not see anything about dual installation when I installed - except that "it" reduced the Windows installation to about half size.
I am trying to re-create the problem you're having I installed openMandriva as a dual boot with Windows 10 on a laptop HP for me, not Acer , and it also will not boot Linux. Your hardest part during the install will be to get past the disk partitioning part. About mb should be good. Then create a SWAP partition it doesn't get a label besides the default 'swap' which you can't modify. Make it at least the size of your system ram, e.
Make this the remaining portion of the drive. Once the partitions are created - some time later during the install have the installer install the boot loader grub on the master boot record of your system - it will automatically setup for windows as well unless you do something horribly wrong. Reboot and you will find that there will always be a default option for grub to boot install based on a timeout probably windows since it would be the beginning of the drive.
You can always change the default to linux - teach yourself about grub if you want the answer. Message Edited by jz35 on AM. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Step 3. If not set, select on the OS from the window and click on "Set as default" button on the same window. Step 4. This method is to delete the partition where the OS you want to discard directly. In its main interface, you can see the Ubuntu partition are formatted with Ext3 or Ext4.
In the next window, choose a proper deleting method based on your requirements. Wait for a whole until the Ubuntu partition is deleted completely.
After deletion, you can choose to create a new and separate partition with the unallocated space, or add the unallocated space into your current partiton to expand it if you need.
As mentioned above, if you have installed Ubuntu and Windows on the computer and disabled Ubuntu, you need to take an extra step: overwrite the Linux boot loader with the Windows boot loader via the Windows installation or repair disc.
Boot your computer from the installation or repair disc. Then, you can restart your computer. It will boot into Windows normally. All traces of Linux should now be erased. Quiet easy to operate.
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