joemolo
May 15th, 2013, 08:03 PM
Hi All,
Here is my current situation:
I got given an hp compaq presario cq70 by my uncle because my cousin smashed it when he fell out with his girlfriend. It looks like junk, the screen is attached to the main body of the laptop only by a few cables. However it does power on well and loads up windows vista. It has 2gb ram and a 2.0ghz processor so it's not horrendously slow but windows isn't doing it any favours. I've decided to put ubuntu onto it.
The problem is that the only way of having a screen is by attaching it to a monitor via a VGA cable. Unfortunately I don't see anything on the screen until windows loads up, meaning obviously that i am unable to get to the boot menu to enable me to load ubuntu from my usb stick. I thought about downloading the WUBI.exe installer but I think you still end up having to operate the bootloader after it reboots.
Does anybody know how I can get around this problem?
Thanks a lot
Here is my current situation:
I got given an hp compaq presario cq70 by my uncle because my cousin smashed it when he fell out with his girlfriend. It looks like junk, the screen is attached to the main body of the laptop only by a few cables. However it does power on well and loads up windows vista. It has 2gb ram and a 2.0ghz processor so it's not horrendously slow but windows isn't doing it any favours. I've decided to put ubuntu onto it.
The problem is that the only way of having a screen is by attaching it to a monitor via a VGA cable. Unfortunately I don't see anything on the screen until windows loads up, meaning obviously that i am unable to get to the boot menu to enable me to load ubuntu from my usb stick. I thought about downloading the WUBI.exe installer but I think you still end up having to operate the bootloader after it reboots.
Does anybody know how I can get around this problem?
Thanks a lot