Installing Ubuntu 12.04

[Duff-Man]

Best practice is to install Windows 1st on a set partition size then Linux to take the rest, as the other way around would require a higher skill level.

I would highly recommend you read a book like Linux for dummies maybe you can source a copy from a friend <hint, hint> To get a grip of what it is. Its totally different in how it handles programs, hardware and such, ie: there is no such thing as C: D: and Program Files.

Edit: oh and gparted can shrink partitions. best practice is to mount / as one partition and /home as extended. Using another drive as NTFS that both windows and Linux can access for all your other stuff like movies and so on.

My "friend" will bring it over in around 20 minutes, if you catch my drift

But, if I wanted to install Ubuntu over Windows and not alongside it, then Ubuntu would delete the partitions and if I wanted to create new partitions then I would have to use the advanced partitioning utility, which I don't know how to.

But once my "friend" brings Linux for Dummies over, I'll read it and try and figure out my problem

[ponder]

But, if I wanted to install Ubuntu over Windows and not alongside it, then Ubuntu would delete the partitions and if I wanted to create new partitions then I would have to use the advanced partitioning utility, which I don't know how to.

That's actually easy to do.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Insta...S-266201.shtml See section 4. Something else (advanced)

If the PC has more than one hard drive make VERY sure you are working with the correct drive!!! Install GRUB to the first bootable drive (even if it has windows on it) so you can get the GRUB menu at start or alternatively install GRUB to the second drive you installed Linux on and use the bios boot selector to boot of the drive. remember to install grub to the beginning of the drive, /dev/sda or /dev/sdb and not the partitions ie /dev/sdaX or /dev/sdbX where X is a partition number.

[Duff-Man]

That's actually easy to do.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Insta...S-266201.shtml See section 4. Something else (advanced)

If the PC has more than one hard drive make VERY sure you are working with the correct drive!!! Install GRUB to the first bootable drive (even if it has windows on it) so you can get the GRUB menu at start or alternatively install GRUB to the second drive you installed Linux on and use the bios boot selector to boot of the drive. remember to install grub to the beginning of the drive, /dev/sda or /dev/sdb and not the partitions ie /dev/sdaX or /dev/sdbX where X is a partition number.

I found out, eventually, how to properly partition my hard drive, I created the 20GB partition and formatted it as an ext4 system, then mounted under "/" (for programs) and did the same for the 480GB partition but mounted it under "/home" (for storage).
So there was no need for GRUB.

[Piet Le Roux]

I got interested in Ubuntu last Friday(we had a quit day) and downloaded the ISO. After running a live version from a USB stick I installed it onto another USB stick via the live USB. Used 5Gb for the OS and 3Gb for the swap file. I installed my 3G dongle within minutes and were on the net in no time. I am typing this via Ubuntu and LibreOffice that comes with Ubuntu(being dyslectic I cannot type anything without a spell checker) this one worked for me strait away. Having worked with Windows since 1993 this a exciting experience for me: for the first time a GUI that’s not from Microsoft and it works well and its easy! My pc is set up to boot from USB if its available, els it boots to Windows, it depends if my USB stick is in or not. I can also just take my Ubuntu stick and 3G dongle and plug them in any PC and I would be up and running as if it was my own PC. It is also a great backup if your hard drive fails.

Ubuntu: I’m loving it!

[zippy]

I use 3 operating systems.

Windows 7
Unix
Mac OS

I have Ubuntu Linux at home to host an Oracle database and web server for messing about with.

Tbh, I don't see myself ever not using any of them.

I just feel that as a developer it's important to be knowledgable about as many OS systems as possible.

[Tinuva]

I use 3 operating systems.

Windows 7
Unix
Mac OS

I have Ubuntu Linux at home to host an Oracle database and web server for messing about with.

Tbh, I don't see myself ever not using any of them.

I just feel that as a developer it's important to be knowledgable about as many OS systems as possible.

Just want to say, I like how you think. Props for that.

Personally I have never used MaxOS X, but that is just because I never owned any Apple products, except for Apple II back in the days, don't think people of nowadays even know what that was.

I do however make daily use of Windows and Linux, and playing with Solaris, and can definitely see why one needs to know the ins and outs of all them, especially their strengths and weaknesses. This is from a network engineer btw, though I have done sysadmin work in the past as well, and very little development, wish I had more time, but life gets in the way of that :P