Tuesday, November 16, 2010

How to install ubuntu outside window?

Know About The Computer First

Firstly, You should have sufficient information about your computer like the capacity of RAM. Space occupied by the differant drives e.g. C:,D:,E:,F:.Sp for this do the following:
  • Click in the start menu and choose control panel. 
  • Click on the link "About your computer".
  • Under the Properties Tab, you will be able to see the type of processor used in your CPU and the Capacity of RAM.                                                                                                               To see the space occupied by the different drives:
  • Right click on My Computer, Choose manage option.
  • Then choose Disk Management in the left side of the dialog box.
You will be able to see the space occupied by the different drives .
Now vacant one of your drive either D: or E: or F:, e.g. move the folders and files contined in drive D: to other drive if you want to vacant the D: drive.


Follow the following steps to install ubuntu outside window: 
  1.  Insert the ubuntu CD in the CD driver and restart your computer.
  2.  Press F8 and choose "Boot from CD".
  3. A install dialog box is displayed .
  4. Choose Region "India" from drop downlist of Region.
  5. The time zone will by default display i.e India Time.
  6. Click on the Forward Button.
  7. Choose Keyboard Layout as USA.
  8. Click Forward Button.
  9. Click in the checkbox "Choose specify partitions manually".
  10. A" Create a Partition" dialog box is displayed.
  11. It will display your all drives along with the capacity and used space.
  12. Here the drive names are not written. these are written as:                                                  
dev/sda1
dev/sda5
dev/sda6
dev/sda7
*   If you can recognise your drive names by the space used. If the space of the two drive are equal then you treat your drives in the serial order as drive C: for sda 1 or drive D: for sda5 or drive E: for sda6 or drive F: for sda7.


13. Now delete the drive D: (which you have already vacanted in window)i.e. sda5.For this, right clich on sda5 and choose delete option.
14. The space used in sda5 will now become a free space.
15. Now right click in the free space and choose Add option.
16. Give the partition(swap area) in the "New Partition" Dialog box displayed.
i.e 2*Ram Capacity in MB.
17. Give it the name swap area from the drop down list. By doing this, mount pointoption becomes deactivated.
18. Now you will see that some space of free space is allocated as the swap area and the rest of the space remains the free space.
19. Right click on the Free space and choose Add option.
20. iIn the "New Partition" dialog box, give it the name as "ext4filesystem" from the drop down list. With this, Mount point option gets activated.
21. Choose "/" from the dropdown list of mount point.
22. Click on th forward option.
23. Now give your name and Password for opening the ubuntu mode.
24. Click on the forward button.
25. click on the install button.
After the installation process is completed, remove the CD fron the CD driver and restart your computer...

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