Walt Mankowski via plug on 8 Jan 2025 06:51:02 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Touch on Lenovo Tab M9


On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 02:40:29PM +0000, Rev. LeRoy Cressy via plug wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-01-07 at 23:29 -0500, Adam Zion via plug wrote:
> > I see that a few Lenovo M10 models are listed as being supported by Ubuntu
> > Touch, but not the M9 that I own. So, 2 questions:
> > 
> > 1. Does anyone know for sure whether or not Ubuntu Touch will install on this
> > device? 
> > 
> > 2. Is there a way to do a test run of Ubuntu Touch on a tablet the same way
> > you can do w/a LiveUSB on a computer? 
> > 
> > Thx, 
> > -Z
> > 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> may I suggest that you attempt to do the following:
> 
> What UEFI chip is on your system.  I have a 8 year old laptop that would not
> dual boot because the UEFI chip insisted on booting M$.  I did a work around by
> putting refind on a flash drive.
> 
> Attempt to shrink the main widows partition
> 
> Attempt to load Ubuntu or distribution of your choice on the free space
> created.
> 
> I hope that this works for you.

It seems unlikely that this will work. The Lenovo Tab M9 isn't a
Windows laptop, it's an Android tablet.

Walt
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