can I install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my dell laptop inspiron 15 7000 gaming. I tried to install it using usb, but the screen is freezing when I tried Ubuntu without install.
Thanks,
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Sign up to join this communityI have GTX 1050 on my Yoga 720 and Ubuntu installed fine. Make sure you have the drive interface in the BIOS set to AHCI instead of RAID. I dual boot Windows 10 on my machine, here's the step I took.
Windows 10 came installed with EFI BIOS set to have secure boot enabled and drive set to RAID. Boot to Windows Safe mode, go to the BIOS and change RAID to AHCI. Windows SAFE mode will get the proper AHCI driver enabled, so the next normal boot to Window 10 should be successful.
From Windows 10 OS, I shrink the C: drive to allow 100GB of free space for Ubuntu installation. Then reboot via Ubuntu 18.04 installation USB stick. Use select to do the partition yourself, make a partition or two if you want swap in separate partition. Select your root and swap (if necessary), and nstall Ubuntu and grub2 on the partition. Under EFI installation.
Both Windows 10 and Ubuntu boot option should be available to your BIOS EFI boot selection.
I install Ubuntu 18.04 but I have disable the GPU.
At the installation grub you have press e and then, after the --- put nomodeset
and press f10.
The installation will work, but I can't install the nVidia drivers.
nomodeset
to get basic functionality of the graphics. After installation, you can install a proprietary nvidia graphics driver (into the installed system).