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Ubuntu Certification

• Ubuntu Cerfified HW

Search

First selected Dell Laptop. Then the following search parameters

• 5378

• Laptops
• Pre-installed by manufacture
• 16.04 LTS
• Dell

Results

 Canonical works closely with OEMs to certify Ubuntu on a range of their hardware.
 The following are all certified. More and more devices are being added with each release, so don't forget to check this page regularly.
 Showing results for "5378":
 Dell Inspiron 13-5378 Laptop

Partition

Reference

• Create Partiton

Finding Disk Management

• Type Control Panel in Search window
  • System and Security
    • Administrative Tools
      • Create and format hard disk partitons

Shrink Existing

• Selected OS (C) - the shrink
• default was
  • size before shrink 230974 MB
  • size after 124107
• click on Shrink

Create Partition

• Open Computer Management by selecting the Start button. The select Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
• In the left pane, under Storage, select Disk Management.
• Right-click an unallocated region on your hard disk, and then select New Simple Volume.
• In the New Simple Volume Wizard, select Next.
• Enter the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes (MB) or accept the maximum default size, and then select Next.
• Accept the default drive letter or choose a different drive letter to identify the partition, and then select Next.
• In the Format Partition dialog box, do one of the following:
  • If you don't want to format the volume right now, select Do not format this volume, and then select Next.
  • To format the volume with the default settings, select Next.
• Review your choices, and then select Finish.

Create Boot Ubuntu Installation of USB

Download

• Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
• File name: ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

Reference

• Copy ISO to USB

Steps

• Plug in USB dongle
• Open Mac terminal window

 diskutil list
   ...
   /dev/disk4 (external, physical):
      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *7.8 GB     disk4
      1:             Windows_FAT_32 KINGSTON                7.7 GB     disk4s1
 
 sudo umount /dev/disk4s1
   umount(/Volumes/KINGSTON): Resource busy -- try 'diskutil unmount'
 diskutil umount /dev/disk4s1
   Volume KINGSTON on disk4s1 unmounted
 
 sudo dd if=ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/rdisk4s1 bs=1m
   1514+1 records in
   1514+1 records out
   1587609600 bytes transferred in 749.040110 secs (2119525 bytes/sec)
 
 diskutil eject /dev/disk4s1
   Disk /dev/disk4s1 ejected

The 1m and rdisk4s1 in the dd command improve speed.

Hibernation off

From Andrew Gilligan (12/17/17) "One thing of note, regardless of single or multiple disk booting strategies, you may need to disable hibernate on the Windows side, it expects a warm boot to return to Windows, when it goes to Linux instead it causes headaches on the next boot of Windows."

• Hibernation setting

• Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
• In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
• When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
• At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press Enter.
• Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

Install Ubuntu

• did work Windows And Ubuntu Dual Boot Guide
• started here UEFI bootable USB Drive