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Old 01-15-2015, 07:40 PM   #16
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Tiitoe,

One quick thing before I sign off for the night. I seem to remember when I was trying to do a dual boot situation with Win 7 I used live-usb-creator to burn Ubuntu because UNetBootin didn't work. Here's a link:

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

Maybe worth a try as I don't see that you've tried it as yet. I'm posting from my phone and the forum isn't the easiest to navigate and read.

Good Luck!
Tim
 
Old 01-16-2015, 09:48 PM   #17
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Hello Folks!

Just an update...

In reading the Zorin forum as well as a number of other boards I gave this a try:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

I downloaded Zorin OS 9 Core onto a Windows 8 machine and checked the md5sum to make sure they matched. I then downloaded Rufus from the above link and went through the steps to burn the liveUSB. The first time out I had just done a quick format of the USB drive using the built in Windows utility and the attempted install failed. I then re-formatted the USB drive in Windows but did the full format, not the quick one. I then, following the same steps as the first burn, re-burned the ISO to my USB. I then did a safe eject of the USB while still in Windows and unplugged the thumb drive.

After shutting down the machine, I plugged in the USB drive before I powered the machine up. I hit the key for my boot menu and selected the USB (UEFI) from the menu. And, low and behold, after a few screen flashes and boot up text rolling up the screen Zorin started to the Try or Install screen. I connected the wifi to my home network, clicked install, picked "Use the whole drive" as well as the LVM and Encryption options. This is where I would have thought there would be issue but to my suprise there was none. I did the rest of the stuff asked for with the install screens and here I am...using Zorin OS 9 Core on an ASUS laptop (about 5 months old) without any hangups. I was concerned with the wifi as on the Zorin forum some folks had issues but I have not as yet.

There we have it...now lets see if this will work with Tiitoe and others. Here is the link to the Zorin forum where I found Rufus:

http://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8747

I am also in the process of doing an install on a 4-5 year old Toshiba with Win 7 and it looks as though the same USB drive is working!

Good Luck and I hope this help out!!!
Tim
 
Old 01-20-2015, 07:20 AM   #18
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Good day guys

Am Letting you know that i had installed the zorin 9 using the xboot program and i worked well. Surfing the net was very fast but its not for me. To be honest i bought the oversold zorin product. When using it i couldnt get the drivers for my graphics card and wine was another issue. Basically Zorin 9 is for me. I never knew how hardwired i am to use windows. i was very uncomfortable. so i just downgraded to windows 7.

The Advice I'd give zorin makers are to make it a lot more easier to install without downloading third party applications, let more variety of devices be compatible with the os, if its made to be like a windows, there should be a tutorial or some guide to get you up to speed like comparing the file extensions, the directory of important folders like the ones i installed programs in, allow the os to open most or all files types (if it can run the exe that would help too even though wine is available)

But as I only skimmed the surface of the os, it was a nice experience.

Thank you guys for all your help. i learned a lot more, and made me appreciate computers and the hard work developers put into their work. Have a blessed year!!
 
Old 01-20-2015, 08:02 AM   #19
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The Advice I'd give zorin makers are to make it a lot more easier to install without downloading third party applications
That has to do with licensing restrictions by the third party which Zorin has no control over.

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let more variety of devices be compatible with the os,
They need cooperation from the vendors who make the hardware which doesn't always happen.

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there should be a tutorial or some guide to get you up to speed like comparing the file extensions, the directory of important folders like the ones i installed programs in
There are quite a number of tutorials on Zorin available. Basic FAQ at the Zorin page below. Also, Zorin is basically Ubuntu under the hood so any installation tutorial for Ubuntu would probably suffice for Zorin. I don't use Zorin but have installed it and I believe it uses the Ubuntu installer.

http://zorin-os.com/faq.html

Files with an .exe extensions are designed only to run on windows and in Linux, you can do that with software like wine. Try running a Linux executable on windows, good luck with that.

I'd agree with you about the hard work the developers put in. Not an easy task. I think you're right to stick with windows since the way Linux works is quite a bit different than windows and does take some serious effort to get used to. I think Zorin is mostly a windows "look", whatever that means.
 
Old 01-20-2015, 08:33 AM   #20
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Hey Yancek

thanks for the insight. I didnt know all that had happen. But i will educate myself on the ubuntu usage from time to time and try again in the future.

Have a good day
 
  


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