I'm finally dipping my toe into the ocean that is Linux, but things are not going swimmingly. Here's what's happening:
I have an eight year old Toshiba Satellite that's been in a closet for a year or two and I want to transform it into a Linux only machine. I DLed ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso from the Ubuntu link I found hereabouts, moved it onto a thumbdrive. Did a cold start on the Toshiba, hit F12 and directed the setup to boot off the USB, which it could see and identified by name. As soon as I hit save and exit, Win7 proceeded to load.
After fussing around with the three different usb ports on the Toshiba I DLed a second copy of Ubuntu-- same name/source/size, using a different computer and copied it to another thumbdrive. No joy. I figured I'd burn a disk but NO! there's an error code on both the internal DVD and the double USB attachable DVD I plugged in.
I think Win7 is fighting me.
When I initially lit the Toshiba off it had to go through several restarts before it had enough juice to assemble the desktop. I was in and out of the room while it did this, and while my back was turned it did an update of some sort which which appeared to make some of the old settings incompatible with the some of the software. Both Chrome and MSIE were non-functional, and the whole DVD drive thing-- it's not the drivers-- seems to be changed from last use.
When I plug in the usb it makes all the proper sounds and blinkies, but not when I want to boot off of it. As soon as I save the boot to usb settings Win7 rolls in, too fast I think.
Got any ideas?
Fair winds
I have an eight year old Toshiba Satellite that's been in a closet for a year or two and I want to transform it into a Linux only machine. I DLed ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso from the Ubuntu link I found hereabouts, moved it onto a thumbdrive. Did a cold start on the Toshiba, hit F12 and directed the setup to boot off the USB, which it could see and identified by name. As soon as I hit save and exit, Win7 proceeded to load.
After fussing around with the three different usb ports on the Toshiba I DLed a second copy of Ubuntu-- same name/source/size, using a different computer and copied it to another thumbdrive. No joy. I figured I'd burn a disk but NO! there's an error code on both the internal DVD and the double USB attachable DVD I plugged in.
I think Win7 is fighting me.
When I initially lit the Toshiba off it had to go through several restarts before it had enough juice to assemble the desktop. I was in and out of the room while it did this, and while my back was turned it did an update of some sort which which appeared to make some of the old settings incompatible with the some of the software. Both Chrome and MSIE were non-functional, and the whole DVD drive thing-- it's not the drivers-- seems to be changed from last use.
When I plug in the usb it makes all the proper sounds and blinkies, but not when I want to boot off of it. As soon as I save the boot to usb settings Win7 rolls in, too fast I think.
Got any ideas?
Fair winds