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Ubuntu in Windows?
Topic Started: Jun 3 2007, 08:16 PM (632 Views)
Garath531
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I am looking to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my Windows XP Home Edition computer. The only problem is I don't know how to do it without messing up my computer and corrupting everything. Can anyone walk me through it or give me a link to a reliable source?
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Aaron
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A blast from the past.

Are you using a 64 Bit processor, a traditional i386 processor, or another processor?

For AMD 64 (aka x86-64) processors
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/amd64/

For Intel's ia64 (aka Itanium) processors
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/ia64/

for hppa (aka PA-RISC) processors
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/hppa/


i386
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/

Also remember to ALWAYS BACKUP EVERYTHING. Good luck with your experances with Ubuntu, also if you have not tried it first, use the Live CD before you install it will make life easier if you decide you do not like Ubuntu, you would not need to worry about finding away how to get Ubuntu off your box.
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YoRone22-ZNS
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Create a separate partition or use a second hard drive. That way you can dualboot between Windows and Ubuntu. :)`
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Also remember to ALWAYS BACKUP EVERYTHING. Good luck with your experances with Ubuntu, also if you have not tried it first, use the Live CD before you install it will make life easier if you decide you do not like Ubuntu, you would not need to worry about finding away how to get Ubuntu off your box.


Unless he's going to get complicated, which I doubt as he sounds new to Linux, you have to go through the Live CD to install anyway.
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Garath531
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YoRone22
June 3, 2007 09:46 PM
Create a separate partition or use a second hard drive. That way you can dualboot between Windows and Ubuntu. :)`

How do I create a separate partition?

Scotty
June 3, 2007 10:20 PM

Unless he's going to get complicated, which I doubt as he sounds new to Linux, you have to go through the Live CD to install anyway.


I was going to download the installer on to a flash drive. Will that work?
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Garath
June 3, 2007 11:45 PM
How do I create a separate partition?


Try Norton PartitionMagic. If you don't know what it is, you know where to look. ;)

















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FERGUS_MANERGUS
June 4, 2007 12:05 AM
Garath
June 3, 2007 11:45 PM
How do I create a separate partition?


Try Norton PartitionMagic. If you don't know what it is, you know where to look. ;)

google it[/color]


You don't need to partition manually. You can do it from the installation process. It will take free space from your current HD and format it in the correct format so Linux works. He will ask you to input a quantity (in MB, you change it with a bar), that will be your windows partition's size. The rest will be assigned to Ubuntu :) Installing it this way, you'll have the dual boot done without having to do anything else (When you turn on your computer, it asks you if you want to start Windows or Ubuntu) B-)
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Garath
June 3, 2007 11:45 PM
Scotty
June 3, 2007 10:20 PM

Unless he's going to get complicated, which I doubt as he sounds new to Linux, you have to go through the Live CD to install anyway.


I was going to download the installer on to a flash drive. Will that work?

More than likely no, because your motherboard has to be able to boot from a USB device and many mobos don't support this yet. Best bet would be burning to a CD/ DVD.
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A much less risky way to set it up is to make it in VMware as a virtual machine. absolutely no need to partition, and if you don't like it, simply delete that virtual machine!
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