Brand & model: Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575-33BM
Current OS: Windows Home
Motherboard: Acer Ironman_SK V1.25
Processor: Intel Core i3-7100U
Bios: Insyde Corp. V1.25
I downloaded this iso and I'm trying to follow these instructions.
This is the first screen shown:
Then I'm running into two situations:
- it shows this error:
- If I do nothing and let it continue it shows all the screens depicted in step 5 (legacy BIOS System) until the one with the instructions for creating the partition for Linux, only instead of showing 'free space' like in this picture
it actually shows unusable partition (this is the disk space I created by shrinking C: in previous steps).
I don't know if I did it right but I tried disabling TPM but it didn't work. I also tried setting acpi=off
, nolapic
and nomodeset
in this screen to no avail:
I'm not a Linux expert, I would very much prefer to install Linux in BIOS/legacy mode since that's how I'm booting Windows right now, instead of reinstalling Windows to make it UEFI.
Thanks for the help
UPDATE:
/dev/sda3
is not needed (it seems too small to be relevant), it could be deleted, allowing a partition to be created in the 21GB free space.gparted
should be on the Ubuntu live disc, I'd recommend looking at things with that vs. the windows disk utility.