Thus, I gave up Windows 7 and tried Windows 8.1. Looking for the solution, extra drivers are required. The laptop does not have USB2.0, but only USB3.0, and I didn’t want to install Windows 7 through external DVD-ROM, because I didn’t want to burn Windows 7 to a DVD. As a result, Windows 7 with USB3.0 cannot be installed. Before installing Arch Linux, due to the luxurious hardware specification, I intended to install Windows 7. Though I prefer Linux, Ubuntu not my primary OS. Because I was going to install Windows and Arch Linux on it. This is a very important point.Ĭonsequently, I used the command-line interface to re-partitioning the hard disk. Then I discovered that /etc/X11/nf does not exist. (I believe I can run the X11 now.)īefore partitioning and formatting the hard disk, I checked the nf from the existing Ubuntu, believed that it can help me to figure out how to start X11 window in SystemRescueCD. But I failed to run the X11 window, due to the very new NVIDIA graphic card. In order to do partitioning, I used my favourite tool, SystemRescueCD. It will be very convenient to have multiboot with several OSes.

And the laptop uses UEFI boot system by default. It is new laptop, thus the hard disk partitioning table is using GPT format instead of MBR format.

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