2014-12-11 12:06 GMT+01:00 James Sinnamon <james.sinnamon@gmail.com>:
I recently bought, from Harvey Norman, for around $390, an Acer Aspire XC-603 desktop computer. It was pre-installed with "Windows 8.1 with Bing".
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to boot off the DVD and, if so, how to do it?
As far as I know it is probably due to UEFU secure boot. You should go into the UEFI configuration tool (by pressing some key during the boot-up), and disable the secure boot feature. ATTENTION: keep in mind that this operation invalidates the current installation of Windows 8, so if you want to keep it, you have to reinstall it from scratch! Basically, to have dual boot machine, the procedure should be: 1. disable secure boot 2. re-install windows 3. install your linux distribution -- Mick