no erase disk and install Linux Lite 4.0 option

[MarRic]

With all previous installs of Linux Lite (3.4 - 3. 8) there has been an option to erase disk and install Linux. That option is not available. I do not want Windows 10 at all. All videos I've looked at for LL4.0 install show that as an option. Do I have a bad installation media?

[trinidad]

Probably not. Disk is just not an MBR partition table. Make sure your BIOS have a provision for legacy booting first.

TC

[MarRic]

Thanks Trinidad, I went into bios boot ooptions, enable Legacy Option ROMs is checked. I was attempting install from USB Live. Am I looking at the wrong setting?

[trinidad]

Yeah ROM won't help. You need to disable secure boot, and fast boot both in the BIOS, and turn off EFI, or choose CSM. LL is designed to install to an MBR partition table and install grub in the MBR. You will have technical problems with any OEM EFI that won't allow access to the whole disk and there are a multiplicity of OEM specific workarounds for what's happening to you. Whatever BIOS you're working with try to set: no secure boot, no fast boot, no EFI.

TC

[Ottawagrant]

The 'Install this release' option on the boot screen of the .iso on dvd or usb stick hasn't been around since Linux Lite series ONE! I would like that option to make a comeback. Some people want to boot to a live environment to look around. Nothing wrong with that. Then there's the rest of us who know we want to install it & would like to skip the live environment option. This would shave the install time of the OS greatly. A person with low specs & RAM would save even more by being able to install the OS right away. I hope Jerry will consider it for Series 5.

[MarRic]

Trinidad, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! I went back in and set to Legacy boot, no EFI, then erase and install was back - magically!! All is good.

Up and running, files transferred, been on laptop for 2+ hours still have 5+ hours left on battery. Yea!! Using Linux Lite is like ...ahhhhh... after purchasing a new laptop with awful Windows 10.

Last test was connecting new iPhone 7+ for photo transfer (which I had read was not possible from iPhone to Linux) using usb3 to lightning cable, it worked like a charm! (was coming from a dying Windows Phone).
Thanks for your time answering my query!

[Valtam]

The 'Install this release' option on the boot screen of the .iso on dvd or usb stick hasn't been around since Linux Lite series ONE! I would like that option to make a comeback. Some people want to boot to a live environment to look around. Nothing wrong with that. Then there's the rest of us who know we want to install it & would like to skip the live environment option. This would shave the install time of the OS greatly. A person with low specs & RAM would save even more by being able to install the OS right away. I hope Jerry will consider it for Series 5.

I liked that feature too. I'll see what I can do