I just installed it yesterday as well. It's really easy to install. (not like 7.04 and 7.10 which I couldn't install for the life of me) I'm running Hardy on my Thinkpad Z61m laptop and it works great and had no problems installing it. Sure I have to tweak a few more things and settings and install a few more software (Thunderbird, Skype etc.), but I love it all in all.

Also this is pretty much my first ubuntu experience, but I plan on exploring all the cool stuff and using it a lot.

I'm on winxp sp2 already & i just want to try out ubuntu, actually want to have a dual boot menu.i'm using manual disk part. scheme so i want to know d minimum size of root partition & home swap is needed, i've AMD athlon xp 2.2 ghz,40GB HDD,512DDR RAM..please let me know d minimum requirement of disk space for neccessary part. as im running very low on disk space
Due thanks & Regards

The minimum sizes are:

swap = 1024 MB (1 GB)
home = Over 2 GB (2000 MB)
root = Over 4 GB (4000 MB)

So you will need about 7 GB of free space!

Be aware that Ubuntu can't be uninstalled once you install it, for example let's say you test it and you don't like it.... you can NOT erase it.... you will have to reinstall Windows XP again or use the dual boot scheme....

I always recommend to buy a separate hard drive for tests like this... it's much safer!

Kind regards.

As for me,Sempron 3200 ,2G dual-Channel,160G Hard Drive(with xp already),I parted out 6 G for free.ubuntu 7.10 auto parted my free disk space into 2 partitions,384mb of swap and the other for / I installed 8.04 days ago ,I manually parted the existed / into 2 parts,1G for /home,the other for / ,and the 384mb of swap not modified yet. Now the ubuntu running excellently .
I don't think the swap should be more than your physical memory.It's not like the windows OS .It seems that linux doesn't need to swap data too often.

@gautam: The root partition ( / ) has to be ~5GB in size, the home ( /home) about the same (mine is 4) . Or you can have only one big partition ( root home) the swap partition ( /swap ) 1 GB

I've sucessfully installed ubuntu...& its running fine now !
DUAL BOOT-bootloader config.

swap=500 MB
root=3000 MB
home=1000 MB

Earlier wen i was installing it ubuntu gave error & showed me minimum
2.2 GB space is required for root part.

Ofcourse i can erase it, i've done dat earlier also...here's how to do it.Boot in xp, using disk manager delete ubuntu partitions then reboot & us xp cd to enter recovery console then simply fixmbr/fixboot options....Then ur done ! no worries

Anyways thanks to u all for quick support !

I didn't know you could fix the MBR from the recovery console in Windows XP .... sorry :D (most people don't have any idea about that)

Actually I could remove ubuntu on my windows xp. I clicked uninstall and it removed perfectly and I am now using my windows.

hi
I decided to install the ubuntu sometime ago and i was following this steps but when it came to partitioning i can t do as you explained. I do the first step of partitionig which is to make the root partition( the primary one) and ok no problem but after i click ok i can't select the rest of the free space it appears on the screen but i can t select it
thanks and regards

hi, i already have ubuntu,, but my wireless is dead, i have a compaq (hp) presario c500. is there a way to make it work?

you can't create more than 4 primary partitions this is why you can't select the remaining free space. delete all your partitions, create a minimum 1 giga as swap and the rest use for mount point /. you'll never go back from ubuntu ;)

I dont understand why this article prefers manual partitioning when I have used both the "guided - entire disk" and "guided - resize partion" options countless times on 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04 better without any problems. Those options do all the dirty work for you, if you choose entire disk the next screen I think is the loading bar, and the partition resizer displays a slider on the next page, you move it where you like to reflect how much space you want to leave your EXISTING (windows?) operating system, and thats it.

Because having /home on another partition is a smart move! It will allow you to reinstall Ubuntu without losing your personal settings.

I burned Ubuntu 8.04 to a CD and then loaded it into my laptop. When I rebooted the laptop nothing happened/loaded, and my laptop seems not to recognize the file. I am presently running Windows XP. Any other suggestions about how to load it on?

Towards the beginning, /before/ you see the windows logo, you will see the logo of the company that made your laptop (in my case, Dell). It will say, at the top of the screen (usually), to press a particular function key (usually F8 or F12, but YMMV) in order to "select boot device" or something of that nature. If that screen is only visible for a short period of time, I suggest you boot once to determine which key to press and again to actually do so. Once you hit the key at the right time, you will see a list of devices including your HDD (if you see a blue TUI, you've entered setup and are in the wrong screen entirely). Select the CD/DVD-ROM drive (with the Ubuntu disk in it). Enjoy Ubuntu Hardy!

@ David.

Maybe it's obvious what I'm saying now, but you have to burn the image as an image (so that when you look at the contents of the cd there's a lot of data) and not as a data disc where you only have the iso file on the disc.

You also have to make sure to either go into the BIOS and set the cd rom drive as the first boot device or when your computer starts up press the button for the quick boot menu (F12 in my case, I don't know if it's the same on all computers though) and select the cd drive. Appearantly your computer won't boot from cd as per default.

Hope that helps. :)

Szabi

Szabi,
I'm a new member here. I have been reading the comments because
I'm in a similar situation to David. I am using XP to do all this.
I went to the Ubuntu download page, and began the download as was instructed. It took a few tries to get a server to download; but once I did that, I was able to download the image (697 MB).
Once the download completed, my burner software opened (Roxio EasyCD and DVD 6.0) and went to the screen to burn. It defaulted to "Disc-at-once" and "Optimal" burn speed. I clicked ok and it started, but got hung after about 10 seconds and just sat there.This happened twice and i wasted 2 CD-R blanks. I decided to burn manually from the already downloaded ISO file. This is where I went wrong, according to your post to David. I burned it as a file with .iso as the filetype. I didn't see an option in the Roxio software to burn as an' image'. It must be there, so I'll look again, but... do i understand your response to David correctly? I must burn the image to the CD and not as a data file, correct? If so, i hope i can do this by selecting the downloaded .iso file that I have in my Downloads folder.
Can you let me know if I'm all wrong about this?
Thanks for your patience and help for a new Ubuntu user.
BTW... I have planned on installing Ubuntu 8.04 over version 6.06 on an 80GB drive, single partition and then using two other 20GB drives as slaves (one has XP loaded on it). I don't have an XP disc available to try a dual boot install. Do have a strategy I could use for that?
Thanks
Shobuz99

thanks all for share. can i use another partition tool likes partition magic (running in DOS), create new part. in my unallocated space of hdd:
part 1: fat32 - primary - install winxp
* extended
part 3: ext3 for / mounting while intsalling ubuntu
part 4: swap (like above)
part 5: ext3 for /home (like above)
then, i install ubuntu, could i make it use may partitions like created before?
i may configure GRUB to point to /boot?
then i add a new line for winxp (installed on hda1)
save this boot loader in MBR (hda1)?

in mt opinion 8.04 hardy is still really unstable, essentially is your using the awn dock, half the stuff doesn't even work. but one good thing about 8.04 hardy NVIDIA GeForce 6600= me typing this on my 47inch tv. but so far my favorite and most stable linux distro is 7.10 gutsy. just thought i would add that in there.

help me please, ,,
i'm installing linux and i'm in the welcome part
then i waited over 2hours and it's not still continuing
help me

I would recommend using CdBurnerXP for burning that ISO file. That is what I used as well and it worked right away and it's free. There is this option "write ISO image", you select the ISO and click burn and that's that. (http://cdburnerxp.se/)

As for how you could get Ubuntu AND XP to work, that's a good question really. I don't know if you can make a bootloader where you have two different hard drives with two different OSes.

Szabi

I think GRUB can do that, or else the BIOS should be able to recognize the different partitions (?).

Re: Hard Disk Partitioning

This article refers to "Option 1: Guided - resize the partition and use the freed space." (That is what I want to do.)

Where is that option? All I see is the three options as shown on the screenshot, none of which are the Option 1 as mentioned in the article.

The only option gparted allows me is to erase the entire drive. I've been trying to set up a dual boot for three days using gparted and thus far, no success. 8.04 installs with no problems when allowed to use the entire drive.

I love UBUNTU :)
It's easy to instal
But little aplication's for Ubuntu

If you want to try Ubuntu with a lot of programs and media codecs already installed, try Ubuntu Ultimate Edition. It's beautiful and easy for the windows migrator.

i have just finish installing the ubuntu 8.04 lts server editio .It has ask me to remove the cd and restart the machine.After restarting the machine it has ask me and i have awnsered questions at the command prompt.I am now at the ROOT@ARDEC:~# what next do I do to get Off the Prompt

I was trying to install Ubuntu desktop amd64 on my new computer MB GA-EP45-DS3R bios F8, hdd Seagate ST3250410AS, where I have already working 64-bit Vista. Instead of prepare hardisk screen, standard gparted screen has appeared. Sorry, there was no drive letter no partition. I was afraid to proceed to not destroy data in existing Vista partition, so I quit to live on CD.
I tried fdisk -l. Answer no line. I tried gparted. Answer empty table. I tried find something on the web via google. Problem is already registered but no clear solution. Most stupid solution diasble SMART in Bios setting does no effect.
I suspect: bug in gparted 0.3.5 (I do not know how to replace it by 0.3.7 in ISO image.) or driver for ICHR10 (new south bridge of EP45 chipset) is needed.
I had no problems to install Ubuntu on older hardware. If you can help me thanks. If no, Iwill try to create ext3 partition on my disk by some partition manager. In the worst case I buy an another disc, unplug existing one and install as OEM.

That once more I. I prepared ext3 partition on my hdd using Paragon Partition manager. Did not help. In live from CD, I tried to connect USB disc or network disc, worked correctly. I tried gparted, fdisc and grub. Neither of them see SATA disc intependently they are in native or legacy mode.