As I'm not in Ottawa, I'll not be the one to help unless you can wait until March. But another alternative may be the "newcomer" section of our regular monthly meetings, especially if you let us know you'll be there. Other board members? The key thing is to have your machine there, and if possible partitioned already. Also your live USB for installation. My experience is that it is worth paying some attention to the setup, so I'd recommend booting with a live USB and getting the disk structure. One way is sudo fdisk -l from a terminal and send to this list. I've found that some laptops have quite complicated layouts. I like the Asus machines for keeping things fairly nice -- they usually have C: and D: in WIndows, and the D: can be repurposed nicely with no fuss. But I've seen Acers with about 6 partitions all over the place and had to shrink the Windows partition. That takes time. I've had no troubles installing recent Linux Mint (and I think Ubuntu is similar) with EFI mode -- it was essentially automatic. I did one recently in 10 minutes, but that was "wipe the disk and use all of it". Good luck JN On 2020-01-18 10:44 a.m., Allan Topp wrote: > > I'll do that, thanks. But I think all this may just be a bit beyond my > ken. Hence my hope to find someone to do it for me ... > > On 2020-01-18 9:57 a.m., Walt Sullivan wrote: >> >> Dual Boot advice: >> >> I suggest you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test , >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS , >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record , >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table , >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI . One will have the Answer. Read >> the others to understand that one. >> >> Walt Sullivan > > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org