My laptop has 500gb hard disk in which for 250gb I installed Windows xp on C drive(primary partition). I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 in the remaing hard drive with dual boot option. When I am going to install Ubuntu it is showing something like
/boot
/boot/
Can anybody help me in this regard that where and how to install Ubuntu?
Best Answer
Yes...
here's how to do it-
When you boot the LIVE CD/USB for installation, you will get 3 options like the picture below- (windows 7 will be not be in your case, it will be xp)
for your Requirement,you should click on the 3rd option - Do something else.
That will take you to a partition table.
In the partition table you will see 2 partitions. - The 1st one will be c drive which has windows.You will be able to see it as NTFS file system.
Then select that other drive.
Get some free space to install :
Caution : Below steps is for deleting . Deleting a hard disk partition will make all files inaccessible everything in that partition, be sure to take back up if any.
DELETE
. That partition will be deleted and you will see unallocated space.Caution : Below steps is for formatting. Formating a hard disk partition will permanently erase everything in that partition.
Now,you can either directly make the complete partition as EXT4 for installing Linux or you can also add a SWAP partition.
Step 1 : Create a
SWAP
partitionSelect the new unallocated space or free space, click on
add
.Assign the space from that partition to SWAP AREA equal to double your ram.(e.g-for 1gb,swap area-2gb)
Select
SWAP AREA
from the file system drop down menu.Make sure
Beginning
is selected in the partitionposition drop
down menu.Click on
add
.Adding root file system
Now, after you have added the SWAP AREA,do this-
Select the remaining "Unallocated space" and click on ADD.
Select Ext4 Journaling file system from the file-system dropdown menu.
Select
Primary
from the partition type drop-down menu.Select the mount point as
/
from the mount-point drop-down menu.Select
beginning
from the Position drop-down menu.Click on
add
.After adding the partitions,from the table select the
ext4
partition you see and tick in the corresponding check-box(if not already ticked)then Select INSTALL...