August 11, 200817 yr I was wondering how I would go about dual booting Windows and Ubuntu. I want them to both be on my computer but have all my Windows files remain unchanged. Also does anybody know how much space it would take up on my computer by installing Ubuntu?
August 11, 200817 yr You can do what I did, and partition your hard drive using a program, to make your Windows XP a "decoy" OS, and install Ubuntu on the other partition. Let me find the link to it... I was going to eat hot dogs for dinner tonight. I think I will settle for cereal. OPEN WIDE HERE COMES THE HELICOPTER.
August 11, 200817 yr Partition your disk and then install Ubuntus Boot Loader(GRUB) and that will popup and menu when your computer starts up where you can select between OSs.
August 11, 200817 yr Partition your disk and then install Ubuntus Boot Loader(GRUB) and that will popup and menu when your computer starts up where you can select between OSs. Beat me to it. I was going to eat hot dogs for dinner tonight. I think I will settle for cereal. OPEN WIDE HERE COMES THE HELICOPTER.
August 12, 200817 yr Partition your disk and then install Ubuntus Boot Loader(GRUB) and that will popup and menu when your computer starts up where you can select between OSs. Beat me to it. Heh. I can say you will LOVE linux!
August 12, 200817 yr Author Could you explain how to partition my hard drive? Also about how much space would both operating systems take up on my 120GB HD?
August 12, 200817 yr If you already have windows installed, I suggest you use a program called Partition Magic (it's not free...you'll have to get it somehow...i'll leave that up to you). It's a very nice program that can split your harddrive. You just partition off some free space (I'd leave about 20 gigs for ubuntu), and then you can install ubuntu on that free 20 gig partition. Windows won't be able to see the ubuntu partition, but when you're on ubuntu, you WILL be able to see all of your windows files. Runescape Name: "unbug07"Expand your mind.
August 12, 200817 yr Author Ok... but nobody has told me how much space installing Ubuntu will take up.
August 12, 200817 yr If you already have windows installed, I suggest you use a program called Partition Magic (it's not free...you'll have to get it somehow...i'll leave that up to you). It's a very nice program that can split your harddrive. You just partition off some free space (I'd leave about 20 gigs for ubuntu), and then you can install ubuntu on that free 20 gig partition. Gparted Live is foss, and will do everything you need. Just burn the iso, boot into it. It scans your disks or whatever, and then you can right click on your primary partition, select Resize/Move, and, depending on how much free space you have, shrink you windows partition by moving the little slider. As for size, 5gb would be the minimum, and is going to be pushing it after you install all your programs and whatnot. You said your HD was 120gb, I have no idea how full it is, but 20gb would probably be fine, and you can store media/music/docs on your windows part, and still be able to access them via the file manager in linux. Last.fm Signature Overlays
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