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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

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 Dell Inspiron 13-5378 Laptop

Shrink C:

Finding Disk Management

• Type Control Panel in Search window
  • System and Security
    • Administrative Tools
      • Create and format hard disk partitons
• Windows Key + x also works

Shrink Existing

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

Second Srink

• After the combine misstep
• Did a Disk Clean
• shrunk by 100000

Create Boot Ubuntu Installation of USB On Windows

References

• started here UEFI bootable USB Drive

Download Ubuntu

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

Get Rufus for Windows

• UEFI - In section 4 "Installing Ubuntu for Single Boot with a Radom Boot Mode" follow the link in step 1 to "LiveUSB"
• LiveCD Go to section 2 "How-To LIVECD ubuntu" to step 1 under "To create a LiveUSB". Follow the "Installation/FromUSBStick" link.
• Installation From USB Stick In section 7 "Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from Windows". I clicked on the link in the "Ubuntu's official recommendation" and got to the following Tutorial.
• Tutorial to Create a bootable USB stick on Windows.
• Rufus rufus-2.18p.exe was downloaded on my Dell laptop. Put it in ...\epp\bin

Running Rufus

• Followed instructions at Create a USB stick on Windows tutorial
• Started Rufus
• Inserted USB stick - it ended up as unreadable in E: device 7.8 GB
• Picked MBR partion sched for UFI
• Clicked on the CD icon next to "Create a bootable dis using", ISO Image pulldown. and found the ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64 iso
• Clicked "Start"
• A down load of xxx was requested and oked - see screen dump
• ISO image detected box and I left as default "Write in ISO image mode (Recommended"
• It found something wrong on the USB drive and fixed it before I could read it.

BIOS Setting

References

• Disable secure boot on a Dell
• How to reset Windows 10 PC

BitLocker Keys

More details on my OneNote page. They are needed to authenticate changes to the BIOS and without them BIOS locks you out. Locating the BitLocker Keys was a unexpected challenge. This is what I did.

1. Google search on "BitLocker recovery Enter the recovery key for this drive" took me here
2. Windows 10 Find my BitLocker Recovery Key
3. Selected In your Azure Active Directory account. For work PCs where you sign in with an Azure Active Directory account, to get your recovery key, see the device info for your Microsoft Azure account. This took me to:
4. UP Profile Page
5. With my UP account and password I went here. window azure
6. In my Profile Page I selected in the "Device and Activity" section "Get BitLockerKeys"

Install Ubuntu

References

• Dell: How to Install Ubuntu on Windows 10 for dual boot
• Dell: Reset or reinstall Windows 10 on Dell
• Lifewire: Windows And Ubuntu Dual Boot Guide

Steps

1. UEFI goto "Accessing the UEFI settings from Windows 8"
2. hold down shift and keep holding
3. reboot
4. "Choose and option " blue screen
5. select "Use a device"
6. selectd "UEFI: Removable Device"
7. select "Install Ubuntu"

Missteps

Thing I Backed Out Of

• Boot from the Linux Boot USB
  • Didn't create a proper USB boot install - corrected with Rufus on Windows
• Install Alongside Windows 10 option did not show
  • Disable hibernate in command tool - couldn't turn of Fast Start
  • Don't Partition disk ahead of time - do a Shrink only

Things I Thought of Trying

• I was going to decrypt the Windows C: file system. However none of the command line or windows tools were available, for example, Disable-BitLocker. I was going to install them but got install to work before this
  • Download BitLocker
  • decrypt at command line
  • 4 ways to turn in off in windows 10
• I though about using GPT in Regus because it works with larger disks and more partitions. I got things to work before I got to this.
  • created uefi

Partition

Reference

• Create Partiton

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.

Reversed with Combine

• how to combine
• windows key + X
• Selected Disk management
• deleted partition D: with a right click - then extend C: with a right click

Created a Bootable Install USB on Mac

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

Because I wasn't getting Fast Boot disable I reversed the following - See No install beside See also how to prepare for dual boot. See also install along side Windows. Didn't hellp

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.
• Displays "READY" in default window "Close"