[ale] help - question - can you put mint 13 on HP Win 8 PC

[Sergio Chaves]

I just got a chap Gateway/Acer laptop and did just that. On Win 8, go to settings - advanced - general - start options( not very sure)and change the boot option. When restarting PC, you will be at the bios. Change from UEFI to legacy and put boot order to cd-rom or whatever the device you want to boot from.

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On Feb 23, 2013, at 4:04 PM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My Dad is considering buying an HP Win 8 laptop.  Since I really dislike Win 8, I suggested to him that we either wipe it and put on Win 7 or that we set up Linux, or maybe do a dual boot.  He's still thinking about it.  Then, I thought, what if the computer is required to have UEFI to run Win 8?  And, if it does have UEFI, will it even be possible to put Mint 13 on it?  I have no experience with UEFI.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 
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