I successfully installed Ubuntu 18.10 on a brand new (white) using the following steps: I am providing my experience here for future readers. I don't know much about it, but it seems creating formatting complexity/problem from other articles.įinally, I thought about taking out the SSD and formating it by other laptops, but it's really not preferred, because this laptop is really new and I don't want to lose warranty this early by opening it myself. Finally, I think the SSD is BitLocker encrypted. Also to boot from USB-contained Ubuntu, the laptop complained about not finding mm圆4.efi, which I was able to get around by simply renaming grub圆4.efi to mm圆4.efi. I am not sure in this case if it's safe to simply wipe the whole SSD clean. I need to first boot into Windows and then choose to reboot into UEFI from 'advanced startup options,' and UEFI doesn't memorize the boot sequence and automatically change it back to Windows first. The only way I found to boot into BIOS/UEFI interface is through Win10. There are a few other things also worried me.

All the workaround I found require at least getting the NTFS seen from Ubuntu side, so I can resize/remove it, which I can't do now. 'fdisk -l' showed /dev/loop0~7 and sda1 & 2, which are the thumbdrive itself.

I resized the OS partition to minimal, left the new space nonallocated (the only format choices are NTFS & exFAT), and repeated and found the SSD space was still not seen. , and they are all NTFS and combine to occupy the whole SSD. I checked from Win10 and found the SSD has a few partitions, OS, WINRETOOLS, image, EFI. Neither saw the SSD, the only harddrive in the laptop, and ended up asking me how do I wish to partition/install in the thumbdrive-only space. When I tried to install from two bootable USBs, one with 16.04 and the other with 18.04. I want to replace the whole system with Ubuntu. Recently I got a brand new Dell XPS13 9380 with pre-installed Windows 10. I haven't used Windows for many years, so sorry if some of my question/description doesn't make sense.

Install Linux On Dell Xps 10