Hi,
I recently bought the laptop below without checking for linux compatibility:
http://www.toshiba.nl/laptops/satell...ite-c40-c-10k/
It's evidently part of this series:
http://www.toshiba.eu/press/releases...-c-series2015/
(I got lured in because it was relatively cheap, ~200 euro).
I tried to run live Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu USB sticks, but failed.
For details of what I did, see below.
Can anybody assess from the specs provided on the Toshiba site what the problem might be and if there is any hope of installing (any brand of) linux?
Thanks,
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The laptop is UEFI only (i.e. doesn't provide an option to fall back to BIOS-compatible booting), which seems to exclude the Debian Live disc which at present doesn't seem to support UEFI.
As for Ubuntu and Fedora, the USB sticks from which I tried to boot did present an on-screen menu of boot options. When typing "c" I could enter commands like "reboot". If however I would execute one of the boot options, the screen would go darkish never to light up again.
I used the following iso files:
Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso
I created the Fedora USB stick under Fedora 21 with the command
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --efi --reset-mbr Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso /dev/sdb
(That tool refused to work with the Fedora 23 iso file, complaining that it didn't support EFI).
I created the Ubuntu USB disk under Fedora 21 by selecting the iso file in nautilus, right-click > open with > Disk Image Writer