Re: Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:39 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > > I dont have any option for making recovery cds. It gives option to make > recovery USB stick. There are already four primary partitions, out of which > 3 ie EFI system and 2 recovery partitions are hidden. Please bottom-post. Look for Acer eR

Re: Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-04 Thread L V Gandhi
thanks. I have gone through the thread. I did not find any solution there. Because UEFI, even debian boot disk will not boot until boot mode is made to legacy BIOS. I am unable to make images also. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > L V Gandhi wrote: > >> I purchased the a

Re: Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-04 Thread L V Gandhi
I dont have any option for making recovery cds. It gives option to make recovery USB stick. There are already four primary partitions, out of which 3 ie EFI system and 2 recovery partitions are hidden. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Michael wrote: > On 11/03/2012 10:38 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > >

Re: Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Nov 2012 at 08:07:15 -0600, Michael wrote: > L V, > > When you install, the partitioner will ask you several questions > during setup. DO NOT choose 'use entire disk.' Click/check only > the 687G partition and you'll be fine. We'd like to think so but . . . . > Alternately, check y

Re: Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
L V Gandhi wrote: I purchased the above laptop with win8 and touchscreen today. When I checked disk management I found that it already have 4 primary partitions; 1)500 mb recovery, 2) 500 mb for EFI 3) 687gb for running win8 and 4) 11.5gb for recovery partition. Though I can install debian in

Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-03 Thread L V Gandhi
I purchased the above laptop with win8 and touchscreen today. When I checked disk management I found that it already have 4 primary partitions; 1)500 mb recovery, 2) 500 mb for EFI 3) 687gb for running win8 and 4) 11.5gb for recovery partition. Though I can install debian in virtual machine, is