Installing Ubuntu on Laptop

[Istimsak Abdulbasir]

What version of Ubuntu do you have? I recommend you use 12.04 LTS, much
stable and has a longer support duration. You have to install ubuntu in
Graphical mode. Textbased mode will make you do things manually. Submit
these details and we can further assist you. There is a case that the more
partitions you have on your hard drive the harder dualboot setup becomes.
How many partitions do you have and what are their purposes?


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com>wrote:

> I have several laptops running windows  7 or XP. I want to convert them to
> run Ubuntu.  I have all the systems backed up to external disks. I want to
> use one as a test bed. I want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 so that
> I can test and compare the fuctionality of the Ubuntu equivalent to the
> windows applications running on it.
> I have a Ubuntu distribution disk. I can run  ubuntu in test mode (no
> changes to windows). When I try to install it I cannot see any option that
> lets me install it in parallel with the windows7
>
> I remember from many years ago a program called Grub was used to control
> dual booting. However as I get older I seem to be able to recaqll less and
> less details  (To date me my first computer program was written in Mercury
> autocode and I developed lots of data logging systems using CP/M and Z80
> micros, nowadays I am much more familiar with large data base systems then
> the nuts and bots of system installations)
>
> Any help, especially simple step by step instructions would be gratefully
> received.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Peter Goggin
>
>
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