Great article guys, I think this will help a lot of new comers to ubuntu.

I've installed ubuntu 9.10 on 3 systems since it came out and there's only 1 step I needed to do extra:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

On 3 systems with all different wireless cards I had to run this command or else I didn't have a wireless driver. Hardware Drivers didn't detect any of the wireless cards.

Very useful, detailed and beneficial article.

Enjoyed it, thanks.

Thank you so much good

I'm new about Linux. How can I install linux in a netbook? I have no CD Drive.
Thanks

Go to the Ubuntu site and download their Netbook Remix version, which is tweaked for smaller screens, etc. At the same place they have info on how to create a bootable USB on a Windows machine. Once you've done that you should be able to get at the BIOS screens of your machine and tell it to look to boot from a USB drive before your hard drive (don't worry - it won't complain if there isn't one), and then try it out! Good luck!

"Editor's Note: This option will ONLY appear if you have another operating system installed, such as Microsoft Windows. Remember that, after the installation, the Windows boot loader will be overwritten by the Ubuntu boot loader!"

So what is your point ? You tell me to "remember" this, but why ? What difference does it make ? Do I need to worry ? Will I never be able to run windows again ?

You say you are writing this for Ubuntu newbies. If you are going to throw out a "caution" like this, you should be prepared to state what the consequences are.

It means exactly that. The windows boot loader will be removed and replaced by GRUB.
After that with every reboot you will be presented with the option of booting into Ubuntu (or any other distro you have installed) or Windows. Windows 7 will probably appear as "Vista Bootloader" so do not be confused by that. GRUB still has problems correctly recognizing Windows 7 and Windows 7 uses the Vista bootloader anyway so it isn't entirely wrong.

If you wait for a few seconds and do nothing in the boot menu, GRUB will automatically start booting Ubuntu after a few seconds.

Most of the time this will not cause any problems. However, problems may arise if you decide to get rid of ubuntu entirely by deleting it or removing the partition it's installed in. In layman's terms when you do this, it is likely that GRUB boot loader won't be able to find the data needed for it to function and will crash preventing you from booting into your remaining operating system (Windows in this case). Using system recovery of through the Windows Installation disk won't help either because basicly as far as it's concerned nothing is wrong with the system.

There are several ways to prevent this. The easiest for windows user would be installing a Windows application called EasyBCD prior to deleting linux. Under maintainance (or something... ) use the option called Re-Write MBR... (some something similar... MBR stands for Master Boot Record) This will overwrite the GRUB with the original window bootloader. It should work on both Windows Vista and 7. For windows XP you'll need to use the command fixmbr from the recovery console.

There is no downside to this unless you are using a pirated version of Windows. Since they may make use of a modified bootloader or mbr, re-writing them with a clean MBR may cause your illegally obtained windows to realize it's illegal. What this means is that it will probably revert to Evaluation mode and refuse to download any updates and refuse to work after a while.

But if you are a honest windows user you have nothing to worry about.

I have 2 Disks (700 GB and 1 TB) whereas the 1 Disk is intern, the 2nd is a USB-Disk and is actually mostly for backup purposes there.
There are both about 50% full.
As I installed, I just saw one 1TB volume. It showed, that it wanted to create a partition from about 500GB - which I reduced to 200GB.
I decided to install Ubuntun besides Vista.
After a looooooong time resizing I could go ahead and install Ubuntu 9.10 and saw absolutely no error. It imported nicely the users, the documents, and so on.
As it finished, I took the DVD out and rebooted. Now it comes and asks me for the Rescue Disk. Is this normal?? Does it have something to do with GRUB? And is it Ok to install on an external disk? This should not be the very problem, if you can even install on an USB stick!
Dreamkin writes: "Using system recovery of through the Windows Installation disk won't help either because basicly as far as it's concerned nothing is wrong with the system" I wonder how I can solve my problem so far? Anybody a clue?

Hi I need your help as you mentioned on Windows boot loader overwritteen. I lost Windows boot option after Ubuntu installed ! I am scared losing Windows. I had windows partition and free partition for Linux installation. I got installed windows7 and it installed fine, When I tried installing Ubuntu, I remember selected default options.

I gave me default option as it clearly said "1. If you have another operating system (e.g. Windows XP) and you want a dual boot system, select the first option: "Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup." I thought it would keep Windows as it is and I hit proceeded for installation.

first option: "Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup."

refer URL http://news.softpedia.com/news/Insta...0-126370.shtml step #4.

At the end I am disappointed that I cannot see Windows boot option (Dual boot) It just gives Ubuntu option.

I kept 50 GB free space for Ubuntu.

Is there any option to recover/switch to windows booting? Or I have lost Windows installation overwritten by Ubuntu?


I need your help onhow to recover the my previous installed Windows OS?

Thanks in advance

Warm regards
Krishna

Hello,

You will be able to run

Hello,
You will be able to run Windows; it is GRUB which will take precedence over boot.ini. Once you have installed Ubuntu along with Windows on a single harddrive; Ubuntu will be the preferred OS while system boots up. However you can always edit the grub file and do your customization.

Hi firoz munshi/all users

//You will be able to run Windows; it is GRUB which will take precedence over boot.ini. Once you have installed Ubuntu along with Windows on a single harddrive; Ubuntu will be the preferred OS while system boots up. However you can always edit the grub file and do your customization. //

my system boots only through ubuntu. how can do my xp boot? how i edit grub file?

please please clarify

Hi,
I have this issue and I want to get this solved. How to make Windows booting is visible as I can't see this option during booting.

Thanks in advance
Krishna

I try to install ubuntu 10, but I only have one partition in my vista hard drive, how can I intal is side by side?

Hi,

If you look at the first screenshot on the "Hard disk partitioning" step (http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/large/ubuntu910installation-large_007a.jpg), you will notice that by default, Ubuntu resizes the partition(s) and makes room for the installation. So basically you don't have to do anything, just click Forward at this step... but ONLY if you have enough free space on the Vista hard drive! Take a look at the bottom bar and see if Ubuntu resized your Vista partition!

Good luck!

Hi,

Go to a friend with a CD-ROM drive and make yourself a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu 9.10. Here are the basic steps:

1. Boot the Ubuntu 9.10 CD in Live CD mode
2. Insert the USB stick in the PC (make sure it is at least 1 GB)
3. When the desktop appears, go to System -> Administration -> USB Startup Disk Creator
4. Click the "Make Startup Disk" button to create the bootable USB stick.
5. When it's done, remove the USB stick from the PC and insert it in the notebook.
6. Boot from the USB stick and install Ubuntu 9.10

Good luck!

Apart from each time I tried to use USB disk creator in 9.10, it failed to create a disk. Did same on 9.04 and it worked fine, so must be something to do with the first cuts of Karmic, which I am sure will be ironed out after a few weeks. 8.10 and 9.04 created USB startup disks just fine.

I remember the day i installed Ubuntu 8.04 for the first time as a complete newcomer.
The only difficult step was to set to set an EXT partiton and the mounting point "/", which i see it's nicely shown in this guide.

Thanks for this helpful install guide.

I upgraded my pc from ubuntu 9.04 to ubuntu 9.10 and it was a complete disaster. Please notice what kind a problem can be created after upgrade. I just back to reinstall ubuntu 9.04. You need to test very carefully your new release.

Yes, I have heard as well that some people have problems "upgrading" from earlier versions to Karmic. I have installed 9.10 on 4 physical and 3 virtual machines now from scratch, and the only problem I have had was on an old (6yr+) laptop there was no wireless, and that Stellarium version 0.10.2 doesn't seem to work well with Compiz in 9.10 (although Stellarium themselves have said this is their issue rather than Ubuntu). Other than that, 9.10 is great - faster to boot and shut down, some useful new tools, and a slightly tweaked interface experience. All in all, nothing major over 9.04 though, and I'd be tempted to stick with 9.04 if you have it and are happy.

does the new version (9.10) will solve the sound problem on my compaq 515, i've installed the 9.04 tjht comes with wubi installer and it wont create any sound after installation...

I have two physical hard disks (20G & 60G). However, during the installation, it shows both of them as one "sda" with a size of 80G. I would like to make them appears as two physical hard disk because I would like to maintain the data in the 60G hard disk.

Any help how I solve this?

(Note: I would like to remove windows completely)

I've always used Windows on my PC's, but I thought I should give Linux a chance. I've got two harddisc on my computer and after reformatting both disc, I wanted to install an use Linux Ubuntu 9.10 on the second disc as the primary OS om that disc. I downloaded the .iso file and burned it. But when I restarted my PC with the Ubuntu DVD in the drive and got to the main option screen I just got the errormessage 'I/O Error' when I try to use the option 'Install Ubuntu'. The only option after that is 'Reboot' . Why do I get this message? I've understood that installment of Linux should be piece of cake, but is it? If I can't get an easy solution to this I think I'm heading back to the 'safe' software of Windows.

I've always used Windows on my PC's, but I thought I should give Linux a chance. I've got two harddisc on my computer and after reformatting both disc, I wanted to install an use Linux Ubuntu 9.10 on the second disc as the primary OS om that disc. I downloaded the .iso file and burned it. But when I restarted my PC with the Ubuntu DVD in the drive and got to the main option screen I just got the errormessage 'I/O Error' when I try to use the option 'Install Ubuntu'. The only option after that is 'Reboot' . Why do I get this message? I've understood that installment of Linux should be piece of cake, but is it? If I can't get an easy solution to this I think I'm heading back to the 'safe' software of Windows.

The only hangup I had was my wife wants to use Windoze . So I edited the boot loader to make it load "The Best Windows Yet" (cough) by default, to make her happy.
Instructions are at https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/dualboot-custom.html

i'm a new linux user and the manual partition was very useful for me.

Hi, thanks for this fine tutorial nevertheless I probably missed something :
During step 4 "prepare disk space", the installer detects that Windows XP is installed on the disk and that there is no free space and no /dev/sda2 BUT option 1 "Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup" DO NOT apear. I don't want "to erase and use the entire disk"; I can't "use the largest continuous free space" because there is no such free space and when I try to "specify partitions manually" the windows partirion disappears !!???
How can I shrink the windows partition to the minimum and then install Ubuntu ?
Thanks

Jerome, if you don't have free space on the hard drive, you can NOT shrink anything :) Make space on the drive by deleting files you don't use or need anymore (at least 10 GB) and run the Ubuntu installer again. Another alternative is to get a secondary hard drive for the Ubuntu installation, this way you will have both operating systems, each with its own hard drive :)

Well to be honest i really like the setup, but i have no clue how to install drivers, i have a belkin wireless n usb adapter and i connect to wireless. so i cannot get online on that pc. and i see that i should have a program called wine, which i dont. i am so lost, im about to go back to windows....

Search Wine in Ubuntu Software Center and install it.

For the driver installation of the Belkin wireless usb adapter search the Ubuntu forums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=302357

what Jerome says is right, I have two partitions each of them is 40G, the first one contains Windows Xp and it only occupies 6G from the whole space of the partition.

The problem is I want to install ubunto without removing windows, BUT the first option
"Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup"
doesnt show in my installation at all, I have free space on the partition but I dont have unpartitioned area, So what am I missing exactly.

I only have a 4gb SSD. I need to know if I will still be able to install it.

Hello, I've just tested the Ubuntu installer on a 4GB hard drive and it can be installed!

Hi! And tnx for a greate guide!
Only one small problem I'v encounterd, some times you need to be in a terminal (but not X) and be logged in as "root" in the setup process you don't setup a "root" account on the computer and therefore it seems like I can't install Nvidia driver on my machine.
( Do I even have to mention that this is my first try whit a non M$ OS)

My driver is in:
"morten@ubuntu-server:~/Downloads"

( the file I'v downloaded is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run")

How do I install it?
Can you point me to another guide maby? (getting frustrated over here)

Cheers

Hi! If you are in text mode, under the ~/Downloads and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run file is there, type:

sudo su

(enter your password when asked)

Now you are root! Type:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run

...and follow the on-screen instructions. Be aware that some development packages need to be installed in order to compile things in Ubuntu, such as the build-essential package.

Good luck!

i am using Linux more than two yrs but i connect to internet by plug in LAN cable but
wireless i tried many times but i could not do also real player i could not install and
multimedia of Linux is not good as window

How about using wubi?
.exe file which will take care of everything.

hello every one.. i have a oroblem i installed ubuntu but i can be able to installed g++ onn that .. can u plz help me.. i also tried the codo sudu apt-get install g++ but when istallation reaches to 97% it shows a message that failed to download pakages.. what can i dao??/?

Hi,

New to Linux and I have a fully loaded Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with "the works." Have Win-7 Ultimate pre-installed, partitioned the HDD, installed Karmic (Yo! It's Phatttt!!!).

After the first reboot (GRUB) all appeared fine. Then I decided to enable password login. To my surprise, after logout from that change, it went to a dos-like prompt.

Too un-familiar. How can I get Karmic, from the command line, to boot into the nice graphical log-in as I begin to learn this amazing OS?

Please Help.

~ Quaz

I have Vista (hate it by the way) and would like to give Linux a chance. I already have my CD burned, but I can't make my mind. Some of the comments about bootloader kind of scare. To set the record straight, if I install them both Ubuntu will run by default? If I decide to unistall Ubuntu I won't be able to run neither? Can I make Windows run by default?
Please answer this questions

while installing the UBUNTO 9.10 version it is saying that some I/O error. can any one please let me know why this is happening ?

A friend came to me witha 6 year old medion laptop, claiming that the wireless card was broken.
The laptop was running windows xp at that moment, so I thought I install the new version of Ubuntu, really easy and quick.
After reboot when the installation was complete everything worked great (except the graphics card wich needed a driver but ubuntu did an auto install so no problems there) and the wireless card worked perfectly.
I also experienced a speed increase if compared with the windows xp platform that was first on the laptop..

I/O error is usually a bad CD burner, or bad .ISO download. It is always good to check md5 sums of downloaded ISO and compare it to the original one, and do that BEFORE burning the ISO.

Also, download from official mirrors, not some torrents as it too can mess up things.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes

As Jerome (comment #19) mentioned: there is no option 1 "Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup" DO NOT apear. I don't want "to erase and use the entire disk"
I also have the same problem. How do I partition my hd to have them both xp and ubuntu. Thank you

I just finished installing Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Latitude D620 notebook, thanks to this guide it was the easiest install ever.

Everything works great, the Wi Fi card was detected right away and I was able to connect within seconds, now is updating the OS.

I am looking forward to use this laptop as my main PC.

I'll be back soon!

Hi. i m new to Unix and Ubuntu. I have windows XP in D: partition. When i tried to install Ubuntu 9.10, i got the error message saying "No root file system is defined'. Please help me in getting out of this error.

I am trying to install ubuntu on a specified partition I have allocated for the ubuntu os. I tried to install on the particular partition and upon choosing "ntfs" as the file system type and the mounting option as "/dos", I get "No root file system is undefined". I know I have the option to delete the already specified partition and start over with the install per ubuntu but, I have been reading a bit on the install of various versions and find that in the list there I have no specified root file or even a swap file for my memory. On my HD I have 3 200GB partitions and 1 810GB of free space.
I do "noob" guidance through this install. Please advise.

am having a serious problem.... i downloaded the image and did the md5sum check on it which turned out to be the same thing, then burned it on a cd. When i startup with the disk and Check Disk for Errors it tells me there is an error in 1 file, bcuz of this i cant install it and i dont kno wat nex 2 do. this is my third time dl the image from different sources but am getting the same result

i am facing some problem in installing the software to make my computer smart .
please help me that how to install the software in ubuntu operating system?
waiting for your reply..

Hi,
I want to know what are the caracteristics of the computer(RAM, frequency, ...) needed before installing Ubuntu 9.10 or any anterior version. In fact, I am using a 128MB RAM's computer, but I need to install Ubuntu because I have so many problems of virus when I use Windows SO. Thank you and see next!

Hi ... Well i am about to take my first steps into Ubuntu with a clean install replacing Windows 7 (fed up of the constant virus/spywhere rubbish) so going to try Linux ...

Cant wait, i looked at the Live CD and loved it, so taking a gamble and going for a full install ... Just downloading the iso now and will get started

:o)

gr8 work guys...it helped me lot.....


finally installing ubuntu ending 2 days of my time searching for installation methods...

Hi,

my computer is not booting from the CD.And so I clicked "Demo and Full installation" and I selected "Help me to boot from CD"then finish.But still an error is occuring and CD boot helper cannot be installed.The error message is as follows-

An error occured:

Invalid argument

For more information please log file: c:docume~1paulyt~1locals~1 empwubi-9.10ubuntu1-rev160.log"

When I use "Install inside Windows"the same message is being showed after five minutes of installing

please help me...........

Excellent helper .. I used it to guide someone over the internet.. The catch was that the other person did not speak english.. A bit difficult but as they said a picture tells more than a 1,000 words. Thanks guys.

Hi,
I have installed ubuntu 9.10 on my pc.After booting, everytime the login screen appears and the whole system hangs.i have Intel 101DB Motherboard and a P4 HT processor.
Can anyone help??

Hi

This is doing my head in now.I am trying to install 9.1 into my machine. The install gets all the way to the partitioner, then the window appears and it is empty.
However, I see the hdd from gparted, and from the liveDesktop.
This is the same for both 64/32 bit versions of 9.1.
Here is the clincher, I tried to install 8.04, and that installed without problem, and the partitioner identified all the hdd and the install went without issue.
What the hell is happening, I am going loopy trying ot figure this out. Any OBI-wans out there got a solution.
Ta

"This is due to a bug with dmraid. Boot into the live desktop using the install LiveCD. Then uninstall dmraid and libdmraid using Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptics Package Manager). Once you have removed that software click on the "Install Ubuntu 9.10" icon on your desktop and all will work fine."

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307688

cheers!

(i had exactly same problem, it took some time to catch it, uf)

After i select install ubuntu, I wait for the CD to load into RAM but nothing happens it just stays in a black screen. Whats going on?

Probably because of an unsupported video card, such as an old ATI one.

I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 but I can't seem to get past step 3 in the installation! After choosing the language for the keyboard and clicking forward it just loads forever with the circle icon spinning. Waited for almost 30mins but still no movement. I was still able to select the other languages after clicking forward. Any idea why I'm experiencing this?

Hi piglet

I've just encountered the same problem while trying to install Ubuntu. I can't get pass step 3. It loads forever after choosing the Keyboard layout. Have you got the solution to this problem?

Thanks!

I have the same problem, but with Ubuntu 10.04..
Have you guys ever found a solution?

Cheers

Is it possible to find dirvers for unsupported video cards. I really want to install ubuntu in my computer but Im not sure if I will be able to find one.

What driver?

I supose it would be OK if I could get past the third screen. I don't get top the Welcome screen. I am trying to install ubuntu on a HP PC that had win XP on it. After it did not work the first time I changed the HDD partition to linux native. That did not work so I changed it to linux swap. Yeah, I am just shooting in the dark hear. There is no way to format the HDD. Do I even need to format the HDD? What do I start with? A PC with Windows on the HDD or one with nothing. If nothing, do I have to format it. How and what filing system?

Help!

I'm new to linux ubuntu 9.10 and would like to install directly to my 32GB pen drive. I have successfully booted ubuntu from my pen drive. However, when I select the install option, the software interface wants to partition my C: drive. How can I install ubuntu 9.10 directly onto my 32gb pen drive? So far all the pen drive help I have read has been to make ubuntu boot on a usb flash drive, then install to the C: hard drive. Please help!

Hi Michael, write the ISO image of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 32-bit on a black CD or a CD-RW disc and boot from it. Do the following:

1. Insert your USB stick in the computer;
2. When the desktop apppears, go to System -> Administration -> USB Startup Disk Creator;
3. Format the USB disk;
4. Drag the slider where it says: "When starting up from this disk, documents and settings will be stored in reserved extra space" to let's say 10 GB;
5. Create the USB disk;
6. Reboot the computer and eject the CD;
7. Boot from the USB stick.

All the settings you made will be saved!

Marius, this is exactly what I did before. Now, when I boot from my USB pen drive, I see all the same options as if the ISO image is on CD. By this I mean, I can boot without making changes to my current system, or install ubuntu. This is my problem. I want to run the ubuntu install wizard and install ubuntu 9.10 to my usb pen drive, not a dual boot to my C: fixed hard drive. I greatly appreciate any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance for all the wonderful support:>)

Hi Michael,
That's what I'm looking for too and as far as I know, there is only "Marcus's" option available - your pen drive will save changes, it'll just always boot like a usual liveCD/USB (so it will take too much time and that's the problem...).
It doesn't make me happy, so I'll keep searching for another solution, but for now that's all what I know.

This is a welcome resource. I have a major reservation with GRUB as bootloader, however. I've been running 9.10 inside Windows 2K via Wubi and been crippled 4 times by recommended updates accessed through Ubuntu Update Manager, 3 times by an update of so-called GRUB1 to GRUB2, more exactly known as GRUB 1.97~Beta4. January 4, 2010, the 4th time, I installed recommended kernel upgrade 2.6.31.17. Currently, GRUB 1.97~Beta4 is a trouble-frought substitution for the Windows bootloader, which will happen if we install Ubuntu side by side with Windows. There may be a fix, but finding this trustworthy needle in the mammoth haystack of well-meant, amateur, and inconsistent advice is no job for an end-user like me. Beware.

its nice bro...........wonderful.........


it is really helpful to newcomers..........

Hey, I am rite now installin ubuntu 9.10 but no option is shown for side by side installation.
Please help ... I just stucked at this point ...

I am having windows 7 in my pc. And I installed Ubuntu 9.10 using ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso (burned it in a cd for installtion.). I am getting the boot loader perfectly with both ubuntu and windows. But where I am facing the issue is, after I select ubuntu to load and it reaches till the welcome screen where I have to enter the password. Once I enter the password correctly and click on the Log In button then after I can see only a blank area (completly black). Waited for around 30mins still no change. The entire screen is blank with only mouse arrow seen. Windows 7 is working fine with no errors. What could be issue? Please provide me a help to solve this. Thank you in advance.

It may be a video card issue. What video card do you have? ATI, Intel, Nvidia, other?

I am having the exact same issue. Anyone know the reason for this?

Looking for answers to the issues in Comment #s 19, 33, and 36.

I used Gparted to partition my hard drive. Compressed my XP installation and created a partition to install Ubuntu NBR. The Ubuntu partition is FAT32. Whether I mount it or not, when I try to move Forward I get the "No root file system" message.

So do I use the Ubuntu installer to 1) delete the partition into free space, 2) create a small swap partition, 3) create a large Primary partition mounted on "/", 4) create a second Primary partition and mount on "/home"?

Can this be done on the same hard disk where Windows XP lives? Is it necessary to use ext4 instead of FAT32?

BOOT PROBLEMS with UBUNTU 9.10

I finally became tired of my Win XP-SP3+Office 2K7 desktop. After a few days of research I realized that best thing I can do is install Ubuntu+Gnome+OpenOffice and other applications.

But, after 3 installations of the Live CD following all the steps Ubunto does not run. The screen remains brown after the logo! I am erasing partitions and using all disk. I have an Intel D845GLLY board with P4-1.8 GHz n 700Mb SDRAM PC133 What can possible be wrong?

Return to Windos is not a choice for me. Kindly request HLP!

Joseph

I have installed 9.10. First attempts failed, when I selected "install Ubuntu" from the cd boot menu the screen would go blank except for blinking white cursor at the top left of the screen. Next before selecting install I selected F6 and selected "noapic" then the installation proceeded as expected. But after install was completed and computer was restarted Ubuntu would not boot from the hard disk, however it will boot from the cd. I'm using a toshiba A-100 with a celeron m. Obviously I'm new to linux so any advice on a solution to this problem would be appreciated.

Hello,

I am trying to install Ubutu on a Vaio with Windows Vista. I got to the partition step but do not know how to proceed. What is shown on my screen is similar as the screen shown under 2. above, only it does not show the option "Install them side by side, choosing between them each startup". Also, the top bar only shows 10.5 GB for Windows Vista (loader) (/dev/sda1) and 175.8 BG for Windows Vista (loader) (/dev/sda2). I want to keep Vista but the second option to manually specify the partitions leads me to another screen where I do not know what to do. The option "Install them side by side, choosing between them each startup" seems the best but it i snot shown to me. Who can help me?

Jan

I like. It is very shiny similar to Windows 7. I had issues installing from the disk, but after a few tries, I was able to load Ubuntu from the CD, then I clicked the Installed button that is on the desktop. That's how I solved my issue. This is great article.

very interesting!
i like it.
I am having windows 7 in my pc. And I installed Ubuntu 9.10 using ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso (burned it in a cd for installtion.). I am getting the boot loader perfectly with both ubuntu and windows. But where I am facing the issue is, after I select ubuntu to load and it reaches till the welcome screen where I have to enter the password. Once I enter the password correctly and click on the Lo.

when i install ubuntu9.10,it is booting up like a live cd.not li an os!
please help me

Choose the "Install Ubuntu" when the CD loads... and remove the CD after the installation!

When i boot using the cd, i select the language English and then select the option Install Ubuntu. Then the black screen with the white Ubuntu logo comes (where you have written "wait for the CD to load into RAM". but after that, i don't get the Welcome screen askig me to select the language. Instead, i just get a black screen, with lots of nonsense words. Please tell me what to do about this. Thanks

Probably you have an unsupported video card (ATI?)... try with an Nvidia one, they are very cheap!

Hello everyone, this will be quite long, so get ready.

I am having trouble partitioning and installing Ubuntu 9.10.
Here is my story:

I have a computer with 2 IDE hard drives.
The slave drive I am certain that it is 60GB.
The other, I am not so sure about, but I have a strong feeling that it is 140GB.

I have partitioned the 60GB HD so that ~29.4 GB has been partitioned, one with a Modified version of XP Professional (Looks and works like W7) and another blank one, where I hoped to install Ubuntu.

The other HD has 1 partition that contains Windows XP Professional, no other partitions or file systems.

I chose 'Test from CD' or whatever at the startup from the CD.
I now want to install Ubuntu. Yep, English, Melbourne, Yep, Yep, blah blah until it comes to the partitioner.

It picks up a "Windows NT/2000/XP Loader" (189.9 GB) at /sda1/
I have no HD capable of holding 189.9 GB worth of data. If the hard drive were 200GB, why does it need to leave 10.1GB unpartitioned aside from the normal 7MB?

I select to do them manually. this is what it says.

/dev/sda/ no type, no size, no mount point, no format?
/dev/sda1/ ntfs, no mount point, 203917MB total, 25606MB used.
/dev/sdb/ same as sda, nothing.

I select sda1, and the bar tells me this:

(][][][][][][][][][][][][][)
[] sda1 (ntfs)
189.9GB

I select sdb, and I get this:

(][][][][][][][][][][][][][)

Nothing.
Selecting sda/ yields the same results as sda1.

What do I do to put Ubuntu on my 29GB Partition? Where is my 29GB Partition? Why does a 209GB and only a 209GB Filesystem appear in "Computer" when I have 2 hard drives? Please help!!

NOTE: (I just worked out that perhaps it is reading both drives together. I open it up in Computer, and all I get is my Windows XP Pro installation on my 140GB hard drive. No 60GB hard drive.)

This would probably be a good guide if the Ubuntu installation actually worked as advertised, but unfortunately it appears that it does not and this article does not address what do do when things go wrong, which apparently happens quite frequently judging by the responses I have seen.

In my case, when I attempted to install Ubuntu, I selected the language and then on the next screen I selected (install Ubuntu). Eventually I ended up at an orange screen where everything froze up. It never got as far as the welcome screen. I attempted several times restart the install, but now I no longer am given the option to "Install Ubuntu". The only option offered is to "try Ubuntu without any change to your computer" which is not a viable option since I am trying to install to a blank hard drive. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

After installing Ubuntu 9.10 beside Windows Vista, is there a way to make my Ubuntu partition larger?

Yeah, I think so... try with Partition Magic. You must have a free (empty) space on your drive for this...

What you're missing is probably the fact that you have free space within your NTFS partition but that partition fills the space on the drive.

i installed ubentu 9.1 in my laptop but i have no idea about wireless setting
i want settings and tutorial

i have just installed this ubuntu on my pc it is quite useful but the problem is that i cant make broadband connection and the sound and movie problem
please help me in this way

I cant connect to my dial up connection too

I had already downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 and burn it then i tried to install it in my windows 7 many times but still got error. I installed it in my new partition let's say partition U:(15BG) neither in C: or D:
Could anybody solve this?

i have just installed my ubuntu 9.10, while trying to upgrade and install software after downloading. it says NOT ENOUGH MEMORY. i installed ubuntu by the side of windows xp.. i could not able to find in which partition, ubuntu was installed.
what should i do to change the installed dive inorder to get some free space..........

i have win xp and ubuntu 8.04. i want to upgrade to ubuntu 10. is it possible without loosing my data in the disk?
pls clarify.

Upgrading your Ubuntu installation has NOTHING to do with your Windows installation!

Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 will NOT lead to data loss! After the upgrade process, your files will be intact!

The upgrade process is done by executing the following command in a terminal or by hitting ALT+F2 key combination:

update-manager -c

Good luck!

Hi,

I tried installing Ubuntu from the CD disk image. When the computer boots I get this error message:

[0.038209] Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the 'noapic' option
[0.038212]

At this point the computer just sits there.

What should I do?

Thanks for any help...

XG

I need help .. when I install ubuntu on my computer I turn it off and turn it back on a black screen pop out saying that the hard drive had non-system or disk- error please replace your hard drive.. someone help..thank.

my computer has a non-system or disk error.. what i should do..

You should use the Ubuntu CD in Live mode to save any existing data from the hard drives. After that, reinstall the system!

hi, i'm trying to install linux ubuntu 9.10 on my advent roma 3000,
the installation goes fine up until i get to the "prepare disk space" screen.
it only shows two options "erase and use the entire disk" and "specify partitions manually" i tried to erase and use entire disk but when the installer came up i was shown the message "input/output error during read on /dev/sda" so then i found this guide and followed the instructions to specify the partitions manually but was promted with the same message
im using a linux disk that i get delivered to me online from the linux website, not the downloaded iso. file.
I don't have any other operating systems already installed and i only have one hard drive
i hope this enougth information to help me. could sombody email me a solution to mr.l.verity@googlemail.com . thanks

thank u man you are the best...my computer is working now...

Hi,

My name is Nehad I would like thank Ubuntu work group for this Operating System
and I would like thank softpedia work group for the help in Ubuntu install.

Baye

hi, the original installation was very successful and I was excited about the current capabilities of this Linux distribution. But later on I have tried to install a new device driver for shared access to NTFS V3 file systems (read and write access) that requires a kernel compilation.
I've failed permanently because the sources of the routines are obviously not on my system. I've tried to follow the instructions to overcome the situation but the system tells me that a special archive is not on my system. Everything I've tried was not successful:
root@bernd-laptop:~# apt-get build-dep linux
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_edgy_universe_source_Sources - open (2: No such file or directory)
root@bernd-laptop:~# exit
logout
bk197466@bernd-laptop:~$

many many thankssss.....
That Guide is approprite.... for us (user)............
.....amitabha.

when i boot the cd it lead me to the login screen directly. I input there username and password but it shows authentication failure! Is there any particular username or passwd for that! Explain me on my email address! --mpriengineerings@gmail.com, mprielectronics@yahoo.com --

I will give you free gprs trick working successfully in 2010 on airtel! with unlimited free downloading@mpri

Hi,
Thanks for the Wonderful Tutorial for Installing Ubuntu,
I am Windows person All these Time wanted to try Ubuntu,
My set up is
I have 1TB seperate disc installed with Win7 Prof.
i added a Second Disk whihc i disintegrated from my Notebook whihc is of 320 GB. ( named as ubuntu_box) for Linux exclusively.

So I was very particular to play only with The 320 G HDD so I used your Advanced Partition Option that is 4 th Point in Partitioning. created a sda1,sda2,sda3(each of size 2,50,240 in GB) the Installation was successful.
But when I restarted the Machine,My machine was using Windows Disk.I thought i will be Given a List as Dual Boot Situation. Alas i was wrong and each time The Systems Boots to Windows.

How would i Get both my OS's to be Listed say
Boot From the Followoing
1.Windows 7 Prof.
2.Ubuntu 9.10

So that I can Select the Os i want.Any help will be Appreciated.
Also I dont know where and how to Get Realtek HD audio for Sound anf Nvidia Driver for GTX 275 card. and Realtek LAN driver.

Please help.

Thanks in Advance.

Anand.R

But i can't install wireless with the command u gave. I'm using DELL VOSTRO

I downloaded the 64bit Ubuntu 9.10 and burned it onto a a disk. when i ran the CD and got the second screen shot above after selecting english language, i just selected install ubuntu and i think it gets stuck there for me as i waited 15 min but i m still on the second sceen and nothing else works for me and i had to press the power button to shut it? Pls advice!

I have seen several posts asking the same question, but no one answers.

If there is NO OPTION TO INSTALL SIDE BY SIDE, what do you recommend.

1. I am thinking I need to take VISTA partition and shrink it and leave XXX amount of FREE SPACE using a partition moving software.

2. Then go back into the INSTALLATION of 9.10 UBUNTU and select FREE SPACE (if it shows up, will it? ) and install on that FREE SPACE.

HOWEVER, it is unclear to me if it will install and format ONLY ON THE FREE SPACE.

I, we (those that have asked this several times), would like to INSTALL UBUNTU and join the growing tide of users getting off the WINDOZE software.

luv_hot_chiles@hotmail.com

Pls email me if you can, as well as posting here for all to see.

r/ Greg

I already have XP Pro installed and this is my first shot at installing Linux. You said that if there was another OS installed it would give an option to install side by side, but it only gives me the next option, where I will have to wipe my hard drive to do it. Any suggestions?

I am getting the same "input/output error during read on /dev/sda" as you describe on the "Installing system screen. Please share how to got past this. I am installing a fresh Ubuntu Remix on an HP Mini 110-1115nr. Please share what you discovered. Thanks. thegeorgesomers@gmail.com

I've downloaded and run Ubuntu Live CD 9.10. Installed. Then rebooted with the CD out and obtained Grub Error 18. Put my Windows CD back in, plus the scsi drivers for my Raid0 setup, then ran restore and overwrote the boot sector to get my copy of XP back.

Now how do I install Ubuntu 9.10 with an existing copy of Win XP?

I have an Asus A7n8x Deluxe MB, AMD 2800 Athlon CPU, 2GB Ram, 640 GB of Raid0 HD (Two 320K drives striped together) with 200 GB dedicated to XP, 200 GB as a second partition, and 200 GB empty. I told the first installation to use all of the empty space. Don't recall being told to allow both to dual boot though. I'm disappointed this first try failed and hesitant to try again.

I had tried running ubuntu from cd before, prior to upgrading the hard drives to get room. Would the older ubuntu version be more robust?

i m having problems installing this on my computer, installation freezes at line 305697 message on that line reads kernel_thread_helper +0x7/0x10

Hi There,

I'm a noob to Linux. I bought a bunch of components (Asus M4A785-M motherboard, AMD Phenom II CPU, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB SATA HDD, msi SATA 24x R/W DVD), threw them all into a new case and prepared to install Ubuntu 9.10.

I have an older Dell laptop running XP Pro SP 3. I used the laptop to download ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.zip, extract it & burn the resulting folders & files to a CD. The CD seems to be created correctly as the autorun feature in windows results in the Ubuntu Install Menu.

Sadly, when I put the CD into the new workstation I created, it won't boot from or recognize the CD correctly.

I checked the BIOS and it's configured to boot from an external device, the CD, then the HDD in that order. I even tried using the F12 technique to bring up a boot menu & select to boot from the CD to no avail.

I don't think the issue is with the CD-ROM or the system configuration as the motherboard comes with a bootable CD that seems to work fine. When I put that CD in & boot the workstation, it reads the CD, loads 'Nero boot loader' and provides me with a menu to either "Make ATI XP/XP 64bit AHCI/RAID Driver Disk" or "FreeDOS command prompt".

I've read through a number of threads and most of the documention on Ubuntu; but, nothing there seems to address my problem.

I did read about creating a bootable USB stick from which I could install the software; but, sadly this requires a system already running linux to create it.

Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
TIA,
tdw

I think I answered my own question.

It appears the image I was downloading and burning was to create a CD to install Ubuntu from a machine that already had windows.

It looks like what I needed to do was download the correct '.iso' file and write that disk image to a CD to create the bootable CD to install on a new machine. I'm now trying to do that. I'll update the thread with the results once I'm done.

Still would appreciate any comments / suggestions you may have.

Thanks!
tdw

when i install ubuntu 9.10 as an application inside my win xp, i get the following error message: Permission Denied.
can anybody please tell me the problem that is causing this.

Hi,

I have some problem trying to install ubuntu 9.10 in my laptop. after selecting install, you'll be facing a blank screen for like a lifetime. I don't know what went wrong. Do you have any idea? Please help me out with this one. Thanks

Hi, after successfull installation of 9.10 in a new harddisk - I keep getting the prompt to relogin repeatedly. Thinking something was wrong, I reinstalled the second time and ensured the password was carefully captured (all lowcase - simple word) and still same problem. Found others have faced similar issue when google search. Kindly help what should I do. Thanks!

I have the exact same problem. Have you figured out how to fix it yet?

HI

I am a new ubuntu user trying to install ubuntu 9.10 from a CD onto a laptop previously running Windows XP professional. During the partitions formatting stage of the installation I specified that I wanted ubuntu to install using all the available space, effectively overwriting the old windows installation. After a few minutes of processing and what looked like progressing being made, an error screen appeared with the following 2 errors repeated 10 times:
... SQUASHFS error: Unable to read metadata cache entry ...
... SQUASHFS error: Unable to read directory block ...
Any suggestions as to how I can proceed? Probably formatting the machine before trying another install?

Exellent guide guys !
But I have a problem when trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 it isn't known any partition at all!

This problem wasn't present for early versions !
What can I do ???

Hi ! thanks for your post. I just used today as a base to install ubuntu 9.10 32 bits into a Mac Mini... awesome !

Just bought a new HP Pav dv6 i3 laptop and wanted to install Ubuntu 9.10 beside Win 7, tried to install from live CD nothing but a blank screen after initial menu screen. I can't imagine its my vid card, shouldn't the install take? Also I shouldn't have to partition the HD in Win 7 already should I? PLEASE HELP...I love Ubuntu and have it on my desktop machine...thanks.

Hi, brilliant help. I had Ubuntu and Vista installed as dual boot on my laptop successfully. then I upgraded Vista to Windows 7 (not re-install). This worked great, but wiped out my dual boot option, so maybe a grub loader problem? I can still see the Ubuntu partitons, but I am unable to access them. Please advise. Also what is the usual minimum swap size for a usb stick?
Many thanks for all you help.
David

Help! I'm trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 from the CD as instructed. The desktop comes up but the installation program (ubiquity) won't run. When I try starting it from the terminal I get the message:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ubiquity --desktop %k gtk_ui
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 7, in
import os
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 719, in
import copy_reg as _copy_reg
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/copy_reg.py", line 7, in
from types import ClassType as _ClassType
ImportError: cannot import name ClassType

The only unusual thing I'm doing is selected "graphics compatibility mode" upon startup so that it shows up on my projector. What's going on?

I am having the same problem. Have you figured out how to fix it yet?

hello, have 32 Bit,desktop I download ubuntu 9.10 and I use a Wireless -G USB network Adapter,and It will not work when I Switch on reboot, to Windows 7 it works fine. I need screen shots,and step by step. Tutorial help. Need answers to put on Terminal window.?also Can't get Dvd to work need drivers, other then that A O K.hope to here from soon from newlight9

it was really very-2 useful.........
my room mate installed it very easily without my help......
i m vey glad....
thanks a lottttttttttt......

Hi,
Thanks for the Wonderful Tutorial for Installing Ubuntu,
I am Windows person All these Time wanted to try Ubuntu,
My set up is
I have 1TB seperate disc installed with Win7 Prof.
i added a Second Disk whihc i disintegrated from my Notebook which is of 500 GB. ( named as ashe-box) for Linux exclusively.

So I was very particular to play only with The 500 G HDD so I used your Advanced Partition Option that is 4 th Point in Partitioning. created a sda1,sda2,sda3(each of size 2,50,240 in GB) the Installation was successful.


its nice bro...........wonderful.........


it is really helpful to newcomers..........

Great article guys, I think this will help a lot of new comers to ubuntu.

Very useful, detailed and beneficial article.

Enjoyed it, thanks.

THANKS A LOTTTTTTTTTT GUYSSSSSSS........
U R DOING A GREAT JOB........

KEEP UP D GOOD WORK.............

I would like 2 point out one thing..
during installation my pc was connected to the internet and it started downloading language packages n other packages during instalation itself...so it took much more time than d specified time....
there was a skip option to discontinue downloading......
when it was taking much more time i had to press the skip button to finish installation quickly...

thnks

I installed ubuntu 9.10 side by side windows xp following these steps. Everything went well and installation was complete. The cd was ejected and computer restarted but win xp opened directly without any prompt to select other OS. Pls help
i have set 'time to display list of OS' in My computer > properties to 30 sec.

I installed Ubuntu 9.1 using installation DVD on USB Pen drive. But, forgot to select the boot loader location (to usb drive) and it messed up my hard disk MBR. Now, when I don't have USB drive attached I get Grub error and get grub rescue prompt. I have Cent OS installed on my local Hard disk. How do I fix MBR so that my computer boots to CentOS?

I found the fix on google. I booted with centOS installation disk and went into linux rescue mode. And it scanned local hard disk and mounted the CentOS from hard disk to /mnt/sysimage. Then I did following
chroot /mnt/sysimage
/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda

and rebooted the machine.

Thanks,

Excellent................ Thanks a lot.

Very Very Nice, please do it for aqll os, it will be helpfull for others.

Thanks & Regards,
Avinash.S

I have successfully installed Ubuntu Studio 9.10 on a machine with Vista Ultimate x64 SP2, but now I cannot boot Vista. I use 130GB partition for Vista and 30GB unused (for experiments with linux). I let ubuntu installer partition the remaining 30GB, but I did not let it update MBR, because I wanted to use vista boot loader with added BCD record for linux to load linux.bin created by 'dd' command. After this Vista was still working, but I could not get ubuntu running.

Partitions:

/dev/sda1 NTFS Vista
/dev/sda2 extended
/dev/sda5 logical (ext)
/dev/sda6 logical (swap)

I decided to go to ubuntu recovery mode and installed grub on /dev/sda1. I was able to boot up ubuntu, but when I selected "Vista bootloader" from the list in GRUB loader, it just restarted GRUB loader again.

Now I'm trying to restore original Vista boot loader by running from the Vista DVD:

diskpart: select partition 1 and make active
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd

but now Vista won't boot. If I do the ubuntu recovery and write GRUB boot loader to /dev/sda1, I can get ubuntu running again, I just cannot make Vista work. When I run "Repair system startup" from Vista DVD, it syas that everything is fine. Checkdisk reports no error. I was able to backuop my files on C: drive to a USB drive, file system seems to be in perfect condition.

Does anybody know how to fix this and get Vista boot loader working again?
Is it possible that GRUB which ships with Ubuntu Studio 9.10 writes writes more than just 512 bytes of GRUB boot loader? Perhaps it overwrote something else. What does it exactly do when I manually run in ubuntu recovery "Install GRUB boot loader"?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

I got to step 4 of 7 and it does not show any parttion, if I hit forward I get a message "No root file system defined". What could the problem, this machine currently have Windows server 2003 on it, I just can't remember the password, so I am installing Ubuntu. Help.

Thanks

I have exactly the same problem, except mine has a copy of XP SP3 on the HDD already. I partitioned it at the XP install to leave 40gb of the 160gb HDD open for a Linux install and have tried unsuccessfully a number of times due to the "No root file system defined". On step 4 of 7, the dialog window is entirely blank for some reason, as are all the buttons at the lower left side.

I have the same problem on an HP Compaq dc5100, with XP SP3 already installed. I have tried with both free space and preset EXT4 and Swap partitions before attempting install. The Deskop-i386 version of 10.04 simply does not see the SATA drive (no RAID).
The Alternate-i386 version will see the drive and partition it, but it cannot see the existing XP O.S. and want to write the boot to the MBR.
I have exactly the same result on an AMD-Phenom machine. The common factor seems to be SATA/RAID chips. Although RAID is not used in either case, the Alternate-i386 CD always aks if I want to activate the RAID device, to which I answer no.

hello everyone.....................

I JUST WANT TO KNOW WAT "GRUB" REFERS TO .

I used Ubuntu 10.04 server installation iso, burned it on CD .
then when I use it as boot device I get the first graphical screen
with the option "Install ....".

but the rest of menus are whit text on blue rectangle in text mode
screens (like dos \command line screens).

after the installation I get tty1 text mode prompt
for user and password. I can't fix the system to
work in ubuntu-desktop graphic manner.

tried to:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg --config -a
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

even tried to first install kdm and from it
to install ubuntu-desktop.

all fail , how can I install server 10.04 with graphical ubuntu-desktop
(purple) interactive GUI ?

i cant access my audio-video,wifi network of linux
please give me key to solve this problem

very good

i want to install ubuntu 9.1 inside windows,it is not given me the option to insatall the ubuntu side by side with windows.i have only two options 1.format entire disk and 2.do this manually
how do i install this inside windows. i need help nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww plz

It's very useful 4 me.
thanks
It was my first experiance to install ubuntu.
thanks again

Hi,
I don't hav any operating system in my laptop.I want to install UBUNTU 9.10 .Before Hard disk partitioning in getting one option.Do you want to unmount all partitions ??? like that...What should I select...? I have important data in my hard drive.I want that data to be in my drive.I just want to install UBUNTU in C: drive It's free space of 25gb.

I'm nt getting 1st option in hard drive formatting

I have not downloaded 9.10 yet, but have downloaded 8.10 & 10.04 & have the 8.10 desktop cd. I do not recall this statement. I must be missing a step somewhere.

"When the download is over, burn the ISO image with your favorite CD/DVD burning application (Nero, CDBurnerXP, Roxio) on a blank CD at 8x speed".

Question? When 9.10 is downloaded, is there option to click to burn the ISO image to same cd?

When I try to run the 8.10 & 10.04 cd's I downloaded I get boot failure message. When I try to install 8.10 cd I mail order, I get the I/O boot error. Is this because of the missing ISO image?

What gives?

Also, The W95 keeps giving me error messages "upgrade to newer version". Ineed to uninstall it, but can't get Ubuntu on the machine. I belive it will work find once Ubuntu is install. What is the best way to uninstall W95?

Thanks for any help!

i am using windows xp and when i inserted the ubuntu 10.4 cd in the cd/dvd drive ,, the autorun program is not running and showing an " INTERNAL ERROR" .
and if i try to click it from my compture it showing that some .exe file cannot be stated ..

by changing which settings or installing which software i can install ubuntu along side of windows xp, and not on seperate partition ....
please reply to my id blvprasad91@gmail.com

thanks

hiiiiiiiii
I m facing too much problem in installing ubuntu..
I really want to use ubuntu...

thank you so much but i did not get the 2nd last step of install.....when when we select usb option and when should we not

Thanks so much, you saved my day

i am trying to install wine on ubuntu and i'm facing many obstacles..can an1 share me a link or something might help me

if i want to enable than what i do

tell me about server installation ,how much the ubuntu server cost with 3 user

Installed this on a Compaq Presario V5204NR last week. Had to manually create mountpoints. Had to speed up FireFox--other than that it was an easy and works great. My wife really likes it on her laptop.

How do i copy my ubuntu linux 9.10 from its original cd to a normal cd? once i just copied all the contents of that cd into a plain disk by just writing it with nero but i cannot install the cd boot helper .
i just want to run it as a demo canyou please tell me how to copy it??????
please hurry! because i have an it practical examination to be done in linux. its coming just around few days

Thankss a lot for this note...but please elaborate the Steps for Manually creating the partitions in a bit more Detail...

you had selected the option install them side by side but that option is not coming in the installation process of my laptop. i have win vista and i want to install it side by side. what to do? please help

Its really good article, thanks and keep it up