AndyH-uf
July 14th, 2011, 12:32 PM
Your registration process has no sense of humor.
I would like to install Ubuntu to create a dual boot computer along with my Windows 7 system. The answers I need may already be somewhere in the hundreds, or thousands, of posts I did not read, but my efforts so far have mainly brought up approaches that don't interest me and tales of other's peoples failures.
Perhaps someone can point me in the proper direction where the successful install is describe in sufficient detail for me to be able to see what I need to do. Perhaps I could just proceed to install and would find that the process allows me to do what I want, but I have not been able to obtain a clear idea of that. I want to just stay away from something that is going to make the entire computer unuseable for days.
I do not want to modify the Windows OS partition in any way.
I have two hard drives. Each has three primary partitions (100GB each) and one extended partition (500GB - 3X100GB). All are NTFS. The first partition of drive 1 is Windows, the other partitions are my way of arranging my projects and my data to best suit my interests and convenience.
I want to put the Linux system on the third partition of drive 2. Besides moving anything currently there to somewhere else, I don't understand if I have to do something to the partition itself before I start to install.
If I understand Linux requirements, I need at least one other partition. I want to carve that out of the extended partition (partition #4) of drive 1. Should I do that before starting the install? I am willing that this test Ubuntu system have 200GB total to itself, but am more inclined to take only 50GB from partition 4 of drive 1 instead of 100GB, giving 150GB total.
If necessary, I can move my data around and clear partition 1 of drive 2 for Linux, instead of using partition 3, but this is not my preference.
Will it work to put Linux on the second drive instead of sharing the first drive with Windows?
Will it work to use partition 3 of drive 2?
Does my intended plan seem to embody any fatal misunderstandings?
I have played with Ubuntu a little from a USB flash drive. Can I accomplish what I described above by creating an install CD-R from the same download I used to make the flash drive system (ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso), or do I need to start with something else?
I would like to install Ubuntu to create a dual boot computer along with my Windows 7 system. The answers I need may already be somewhere in the hundreds, or thousands, of posts I did not read, but my efforts so far have mainly brought up approaches that don't interest me and tales of other's peoples failures.
Perhaps someone can point me in the proper direction where the successful install is describe in sufficient detail for me to be able to see what I need to do. Perhaps I could just proceed to install and would find that the process allows me to do what I want, but I have not been able to obtain a clear idea of that. I want to just stay away from something that is going to make the entire computer unuseable for days.
I do not want to modify the Windows OS partition in any way.
I have two hard drives. Each has three primary partitions (100GB each) and one extended partition (500GB - 3X100GB). All are NTFS. The first partition of drive 1 is Windows, the other partitions are my way of arranging my projects and my data to best suit my interests and convenience.
I want to put the Linux system on the third partition of drive 2. Besides moving anything currently there to somewhere else, I don't understand if I have to do something to the partition itself before I start to install.
If I understand Linux requirements, I need at least one other partition. I want to carve that out of the extended partition (partition #4) of drive 1. Should I do that before starting the install? I am willing that this test Ubuntu system have 200GB total to itself, but am more inclined to take only 50GB from partition 4 of drive 1 instead of 100GB, giving 150GB total.
If necessary, I can move my data around and clear partition 1 of drive 2 for Linux, instead of using partition 3, but this is not my preference.
Will it work to put Linux on the second drive instead of sharing the first drive with Windows?
Will it work to use partition 3 of drive 2?
Does my intended plan seem to embody any fatal misunderstandings?
I have played with Ubuntu a little from a USB flash drive. Can I accomplish what I described above by creating an install CD-R from the same download I used to make the flash drive system (ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso), or do I need to start with something else?