I want to install Ubuntu (11.04) at my laptop wich already has windows 7.
The laptop has one HDD which came with 3 partitions.One hidden for the recovery(ASUS)
the one as the partition for the OS(150GB) and the other as DATA.I've shrunk the latter
and created unallocated space of about 25GB for Ubuntu.
Now the step to follow is to boot into Ubuntu live cd that I have and after that install ubuntu.
How to properly select the unallocated space to install it(and be sure that I am selecting that and not any data)?
When I should install grub? Which grub? (2/Legacy)? And how should I do that?
Thank you for your time!
Best Answer
I actually did the same just yesterday on my brother's laptop (clevo machine with a 300GB HDD):
Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7
.When the setup completed, i just rebooted and everything was ok.
Grub installed, dual boot working just fine ;-)
If you want to change the default O/S when booting, you can do one of the following:
The "hard" way:
From a shell, type:
cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep menuentry
You will get a list of all the entries in your grub menu.
Count them starting by zero (0), e.g.
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-10-generic' .... <-- #0
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-10-generic (recovery mode)' .... <-- #1
menuentry 'Windows 7' .... <-- #2
Then, edit
/etc/default/grub
and change the entryGRUB_DEFAULT=X
to the number you want (like #2 above for Windows).Save the file and do a
sudo update-grub
in order to updategrub.cfg
.You're all set.
The "easy" way:
Install
StartUpManager
by typing:sudo apt-get install startupmanager
This application provides a GUI in order to make all the changes you need.
More information can be found here