I actually was giving them a look yesterday, but I was half-asleep so I didn't go through it in depth. Going back for a second look at some point tonight or tommorrow morning. :KS
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I actually was giving them a look yesterday, but I was half-asleep so I didn't go through it in depth. Going back for a second look at some point tonight or tommorrow morning. :KS
Thank you for the good luck, but I had anything but. The machine's Secure Boot was enabled by default (expected), BIOS/UEFI was inaccessible (not expected and required a call to Toshiba), Toshiba...
No love there...though I find it interesting that two of the results were my own postings to ubuntuforms.org. I'll have to keep googlubuntu.com handy before I make future postings, but my issue is...
Trying to install...
Computer: Toshiba P870 Laptop
Drives: 2x 500 GB SATA
USB Boot: XUbuntu 11.10 Live USB
First attempt: Blocked by 'Secure Boot'...powered down by itself 1 minute later.
Second attempt: 'No...
Bump
Should I even bother with a swap partition for this new machine?
Would disabling Optimus in BIOS allow me to use the discrete card, or restrict me to onboard graphics?
How much space should...
So grab the latest LTS's alternate CD and then do an upgrade from there to the current version after the LTS is fully installed?
Editing with more info:
I found the alternate for the latest...
I might keep windows as an ISO file (and virtualbox to it should I ever need it)...as for RAM, the laptop can go up to 32GB...but I'm not paying for that out of the starting gate. The laptop's...
I'm thinking of doing RAID-0 on the swap partition (if I have a swap partition)....if I lose a drive, who cares, it's a swap partition. I'm not losing any vital data.
RAID-1 would be for Home...not...
New computer - new xubuntu - Advice?
I put in an order a few days ago for a Toshiba laptop - specs below - and plan to scrub it clean of it's preinstalled Windows infestation in favor of the latest version of xubuntu (12.10, if I recall...