Installing Kubuntu on an XP machine

[Arthur Dyck]

This sounds like exactly what I need.  Thanks so much.

Arthur

On Saturday 24 February 2007 21:31, Darkholme wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I had the same question a couple of months ago.....so Im glad to help you
> providing you the explanation of the solution in my case:
>
> First of all:
> I have windows XP and I wanted to install Ubuntu Dapper, my computer was
> new so I didn't have anything on it and I took the risk. (Anyway i didn't
> loose anything).
>
> So in your case I suggest you to backup your data (just in case).
>
> For this I used partition magic. Anyway, if you find any partitioning tool
> the process would be the same.
>
> First of all I resized my xp partition (I took out like 10 Gb of it...the
> total hard drive is 80 GB) after that, I created an "extended partition"
> (using the 10 Gb free).
>
> Inside that partition I created 3 partitons more.......
> 1.- Of 256 Mb for Linux swap
> 2.-For my user files.
> 3.-For the linux system.
>
> In each case you create the partition and set the file system for them.....
>
> 1.- just select "Linux Swap"
> 2.- Ext3
> 3.-Ext3
>
> After that I applied the changes......
>
> I restarted the computer and everything was fine, I started up windows
> normally...just without 10 Gb
>
> Then I restarted the computer and booted from cd.
> The installation of Ubuntu dapper started.
>
> When the screen of partition is showed up, you must select "manual"
> And after that you will see a list of the partitions you have in your
> system.
>
> Select the partition that you created for the filesystem and mount in "/"
> Select the partition that you created for linux swap and select "Linux
> swap" Select the partition that you created for /home (your files, in order
> to keep them safe if you change the OS) and mount in "/home"
>
> In this setup you can choose to format the partitions....just select to
> format the partitions of your linux: Swap, / ,and home.
>
> After that you continue with the instalation...
>
> When you finish that and if everything went OK, Grub ( the boot loader of
> linux) will recognize both OS (linux and windows xp) and let you choose one
> of them to boot.
>
>
> Note:
> If you have things like "system backup" as a partition (most of them are
> hidden in the new computers, to let you restore your system) don't
> worry...follow the process and just ignore the partitions......don't resize
> them...you just need to resize the partition of XP.
> If you have this kind of "hidden partitions" then when you do the
> installation it will say something like: there is an error with the
> partition X (where X is your hidden partition) just ignore it and click
> "continue".
>
>  That's all what I did....I hope this will help you....
> Sorry for my bad english!