Installation after Windows

Cody Smith cody.smith9202 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 15:21:55 UTC 2013


It will if you install it directly to your HDD and choose " Install
alongside windows 7" Kubuntu handles that nicely, but what you're
describing suggests errors in the partitions, I'd suggest running disk
check just in case.

--c_smith
On Feb 6, 2013 7:00 AM, "Volkan Gezer" <volkangezer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your answer. What about normal installation? It shows me
> a slider on disk configuration page and shows the other partitions,
> too, but not as Windows 7. I am afraid about if it will format the
> drive into ext4 without my confirmation. On Windows, currently I have
> a 640 GB HD and it is splitted into two (as C and D). Just sliding the
> slider will be enough to let it enable installation side by side? In
> other words, will Kubuntu only use the allocated disk space chosen by
> slider or will it also interfere with other partitions?
>
> -Volkan
>
> 2013/2/6 Cody Edwin Smith <cody.smith9202 at gmail.com>:
> > installing 2 operating systems in one virtual machine is impossible,
can't
> > be done. reason being is the virtual machine is tailored for the
operating
> > system you select when you make it.
> >
> > c_smith
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Volkan Gezer <volkangezer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > 2013/2/6 O. Sinclair :
> >> On 05/02/2013 22:39, Volkan Gezer wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I wanted to test Kubuntu installation with a Windows installed
> >>> VirtualBox, but I noticed that it did not see the Windows XP
> >>> installation and even did not get any confirmation to format the
> >>> drive! Since it was a virtualbox I completed the installation to see
> >>> if the old windows files would exist, but they did not!
> >>>
> >>> My second try was with my laptop and I am using Windows 7 on my
> >>> another laptop. I chose install from ubiquity and went to the disk
> >>> configuration page... Now there was a slider to adjust the disk usage
> >>> by Kubuntu, but it did not show the name of Windows 7 and even I had
> >>> another operating system.
> >>>
> >>> If the disk is completely formatted by Windows, wouldnt ubiquity show
> >>> any options to install side by side? I think this is very hard for new
> >>> users to understand and very easy to lose their data.
> >>>
> >> If I understand you correct you want to install Kubuntu on a WindowsPC
> >> using
> >> Virtualbox? In that case the virtualbox installation will be totally
> >> unaware
> >> of the environment it is installed in and no existing windows will
show up
> >> during installation.
> >>
> >
> > Thank you for your mail.
> > No, I installed Windows XP on VirtualBox, then also wanted to install
> > Kubuntu into the same VirtualBox to see if Kubuntu installation would
> > see XP and let me adjust the settings.
> >
> > -Volkan
> >
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