[UbuntuDallas] Ubuntu-us-tx-dallas Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5

Mon Feb 12 13:59:31 GMT 2007

First off, a defragmentation, and creating some freed space is what I
usually do when setting up a dual-boot system. But, now that you have the CD
burned change your system BIOS (usually F2 or F10 when your computer is
first starting up, if you see the windows logo you've gotten to far) so that
the first boot option is CD-ROM or something along the lines of your
computer/CD/DVD setup. Now place the CD in the drive that you selected if
you haven't already. Save the changes and reboot. Now what should happen is
that the BIOS(basic input output system) should recognize that it has to lok
at the CD first, when it does it should realize that there is a live CD
environment located on the disk, and Ubuntu should start loading it's boot
loader. I'm not exactly sure which version you have burned whether it's the
ancient ones, 6.06, or the newest beta, but it shouldn't matter. Once it
finishes loading and you have a plain brown/orange/some color background,
that resembles a desktop environment, you should see an icon that says
"install". Double-click on that. The first few screens is asking for basic
information, that you will use in user creation, time/date standards, etc.
Now the fourth(i think) screen should have an option about how you want to
install/partition your drive to have Ubuntu installed to it. Do not pick the
defaults, press manually edit. This will bring up a screen that should show
your hard drive and it's partition. Assuming you only have one(a windows
drive, NTFS?) partition, either right-click and use the resize feature to
create some free unpartitioned space, or use the sliders at the very end to
create some. Now for Ubuntu to finish(or most newer Linux installations) it
wants 2 partitions. One a ext2/3/reisfers/journaling system and the other
being a swap/Linux-swap space. I usually choose Ext3, but some people have
their preference. Nothing is being applied yet though, you have to hit
accept or apply changes, or something of that like at the bottom of the
dialog box(excuse the vagueness, I'm doing this from memory.) Once you hit
apply changes, and after the changes are applied, a dialog that asks where
you want to install Ubuntu should pull up. Make sure that whatever
specification(hda1/2/3/4/etc) your NTFS partition is that it is NOT set to
format. You can double check this by bringing up the file manager, and
navigating/typing in the location /media, in here whichever drive looks like
it's the Windows drive(Program Files, Windows, Documents and Settings, etc.)
Now set the installation to the ext2/3/reisfers/journalingsystem etc
partition and the swap space to be installed to, yup you guessed it the swap
space. Somewhere in here it should notice the Windows drive and ask whether
you want to install a boot menu(whether Grub*default* or Lilo) do this. It
will install the loader into the MBR, which is the drive's master boot
record. This basically is the first 15MB(I think) of the drive that is
specifically designed to control the boot loading sequence. Let the
installer run it's course and reboot at the very end. If you did everything
right, it should bring up a pretty black menu that has an option for Ubuntu,
a memory test(in all versions?), a recovery module, and a Windows option.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy
This page is a very good guide for Ubuntu, there is another wiki page for
earlier versions too.
http://everythingelse.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/89/
This should make it so you can write to your Windows partition. Not that you
would want to... :)
http://www.fs-driver.org/
This should allow you to read and write to a Linux drive within Windows.
There are other options for the above two but those are what I found easiest
to be installed, and easiest to work with. If you need any help we're here,
or I'm usually on any of the messengers.
AIM: rootlinuxusr
YIM: stefanmn170
MSN: stefanloeffler170 [at] msn [dot] com

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> I am completely clueless on all -nix ways and means.  In an effort to
> learn them I was looking to try and create a dual boot system so as to
> have a copy of ubuntu to play with and learn from....while still keeping
> windows files and application to use when I want to know exactly what I
> am doing.  I have created the Live CD with all the .iso files....my
> question is where do I go now and what do I do to install it in a dual
> boot manner....if on the other hand this is just a painfully bad idea
> let me know and point me where I might want to go looking.  I don't mind
> doing the reading and following of the Aggie proof instructions, but I
> prefer basic and idiot proof.
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> Any and all help is appreciated,
> William
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