fellowsh
December 7th, 2008, 08:37 PM
Hi everyone. I am an ABSOLUTE beginner with linux.
I have a dual boot machine with XP64 in one disk and XP32 on the other. I would like to install UBUNTU 8.10 on the same disk where I have XP32. I have tried to follow the instructions I found on a dedicated british magazine (LINUX FORMAT ISSUE 14) according to which I should still hit "foward" when faced with the "prepare disk space" page with the option "guided-use entire disk".
The magazine says that "if u have already windows installed, ubuntu will take little space away from it for itself".
However, when I am at that stage with the installation process, the page shows a little graph with disk usage before and after and it seems to indicate that Ubuntu would actually occupy all the residual space of the disk......Is there anything I am doing wrong?
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated
Thx
r
ps: a little disconforted by this I tried WUBI but it never worked. I tried installing UBUNTU via WUBI both from the 64 and the 32 and the install never went through. When booting up Ubuntu appears as a boot option but when selected I get an error message which unfortunately I cannot recall...my bad
I have a dual boot machine with XP64 in one disk and XP32 on the other. I would like to install UBUNTU 8.10 on the same disk where I have XP32. I have tried to follow the instructions I found on a dedicated british magazine (LINUX FORMAT ISSUE 14) according to which I should still hit "foward" when faced with the "prepare disk space" page with the option "guided-use entire disk".
The magazine says that "if u have already windows installed, ubuntu will take little space away from it for itself".
However, when I am at that stage with the installation process, the page shows a little graph with disk usage before and after and it seems to indicate that Ubuntu would actually occupy all the residual space of the disk......Is there anything I am doing wrong?
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated
Thx
r
ps: a little disconforted by this I tried WUBI but it never worked. I tried installing UBUNTU via WUBI both from the 64 and the 32 and the install never went through. When booting up Ubuntu appears as a boot option but when selected I get an error message which unfortunately I cannot recall...my bad