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I can not install Debian because UEFI 32-bit
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Renaud15000 .
Feb 6, 2014, 9:30:02 PM2/6/14
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Hello, I am contacting you because I am confronted with the impossibility to install Linux on my computer because it has a 32-bit UEFI (without Legacy BIOS mode, although the processor is an x64) and all distributions Linux compatible EFI is 64-bit. My computer is a netbook Packard Bell easynote ME69BMP. I saw on the internet that other computers now are emerging (such as the HP Envy X2) with the same problem.
That is why I ask you, as a user of Linux, develop a version of Debian UEFI-compatible 32-bit. In the hope of one day being able to install Linux on my netbook.
Thank you.
That is why I ask you, as a user of Linux, develop a version of Debian UEFI-compatible 32-bit. In the hope of one day being able to install Linux on my netbook.
Thank you.
Doug
Feb 6, 2014, 10:00:02 PM2/6/14
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available for installation using mbr. So is PCLinuxOs. I just recently
installed (2 weeks ago)
Kubuntu 13.10 32-bit on a machine that has no UEFI. PCLOS has 32-bit
versions available, that use classic grub. I am partial to the KDE
desktop, so that's what I use on PCLOS and other distros I try, if it's
available, but other desktops are available on most distros. If you need
a lightweight version, LXDE and XFCE are 'buntus--
Lubuntu and Xubuntu. They are also available in PCLOS, and other distros.
I'm not sure how you determine whether a particular version or distro
you're looking at uses mbr or one of the UEFI systems without actually
downloading
and burning it, and trying to install it. If there is a list somewhere,
I'd like to know, and so, I imagine, would a batch of other people.
Also, there is the problem
of oddball file systems, like LVM. When I tried to install one of the
distros, it was LVM, which means ordinary partitioning tools don't work,
and you can't
read an LVM-coded fs from a standard Linux, like PCLOS or Kubuntu, or
Mint. I don't know if it works the other way--if you can read a standard
fs from
an LVM-encoded Linux, or even if you can access Windows files.
I think the LVM was invented to employ really large hard drives, in
excess of 4TB. I don't ever expect to need anything that big!
--doug
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Robin
Feb 7, 2014, 6:10:03 AM2/7/14
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linux support on certain cpus. Maybe check Intel website or email them
to confirm one way or the other.
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