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August 9th, 2013, 06:06 PM
My friend owns an Asus X53E, and she wants me to install Ubuntu on it, next to the Windows 7 that's already on it. So, I've got my Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) live usb; but in bios the boot priority is hard drive, then CD/DVD drive. I've tried to add usb stick to the boot priority list, but I can't see what I need to do. If I have my (Crucial Gizmo!) stick plugged in then switch the computer on, holding down F2 to access bios settings, I am able to add Crucial Gizmo! to the list of boot devices... but then the bios wants me to type in a path to the stick, which I have no idea how to do (the path will include \s, apparently, so I guess it's a Windows-type path, and I know next to nothing about Windows)... then there's the matter of changing boot priority so usb stick comes before hard drive, and I don't know how to do that either (every computer I've ever owned has come with boot priority usb stick and CD/DVD drive before hard drive, I've never had to change priority, and the bios setting screens are not at all user-friendly (I've never met a user-friendly bios setting screen...).
I can't post screen-shots because it's bios screens on my friend's laptop... if someone could point me in the direction of a walk-through that'd be really cool.
Cheers.
I can't post screen-shots because it's bios screens on my friend's laptop... if someone could point me in the direction of a walk-through that'd be really cool.
Cheers.