1.These days,the demand of dual mode booting task has been increased tremendously. But most of the times,if you are not familiar with formatting,the condition become worse. What will happen is you may lose either the existing one or the both one. Then the issue may be a most frustuating one. So I have decided to make a write up on ¨How to install ubuntu along with windows.
* First of all Boot into Vista and go into Disk Management > right-click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management.
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Right-click on the main Vista partition and select Shrink Volume, the Shrink tool will assess how much space can be freed up. As a rule of thumb Shrink will reduce the main system partition by about 50%. As long as the partition is big enough to begin with (at least 10GB) it should accommodate both operating systems. Select Shrink and the tool will reduce the volume of the primary partition, leaving the rest of the disk free as unpartitioned space. Once that's done, shut down the Vista machine.
* Once the Live CD has loaded, choose your language and select Forward >> On next page, select your location and then Forward >> On the next screen, choose the appropriate keyboard layout and then Forward [ Most of the time USA ] >> Ubuntu will then load the disk partitioner to determine where it's going to be installed. Choose "Manual - use the largest continuous free space". This will automatically select the unpartitioned space we created earlier using the Shrink tool. Click Forward.
Username , Password and click Forward > Now On the Migrate Documents and Settings screen, if Ubuntu finds any user accounts to migrate, feel free to import it from Vista to Ubuntu. If it doesn't find any, obviously this isn't an option. Click Forward. On the "Ready to install" screen, you'll see that Ubuntu now has enough information to commence the installation. In the summary under Migrate Assistant, it should say "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)". This means that regardless of whether Ubuntu found any user account to migrate, it certainly knows that Windows Vista is installed on the other partition and is aware of it. Click Install. * When the install is complete the system will reboot. When the GRUB boot menu is displayed, have a look at the last entry in the list.
After the Ubuntu boot options, there will be an entry "Other operating systems" and beneath that "Windows Vista/Longhorn loader". By default Ubuntu will load itself after 10 seconds, but you can select the Vista option and Vista will boot normally. If you want to use the GRUB bootloader then you don't need to do anything further. Ubuntu installs GRUB into the MBR by default and will happily dualboot itself and Vista. ~!~ If you prefer to keep Vista in charge of things, then you'll need to do a little bit of tweaking then boot into Ubuntu and go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal. Then, type in sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
We'll need these entries for use later on, so dump them out to a location accessible by the Vista partition. Alternatively, Ubuntu can access the Vista partition directly - go to Places --> Computer, and double-click into the option marked "xx GB Media". This is the NTFS Vista partition. Ubuntu will prompt for authentication (your Ubuntu password) and then you can either copy the entire menu.lst file into it, or create a new text file on the fly, open it with gedit and copy in the boot entries.
Goto "Manage Bootloader" and select "Reinstall the Vista Bootloader", then "Write MBR". This puts the Vista bootloader back into the MBR, but the machine will only boot into Vista. To enable access to the Linux partition, the best option is to install NeoGrub. Go to "Add/Remove Entries", go the NeoGrub tab and select "Install NeoGrub". This adds the "NeoGrub Bootloader" option to the Vista bootloader. Once that's done, choose Configure - this launches the NeoGrub menu.lst file, location at C:NSTmenu.lst. Use Notepad or Wordpad to open the file, and then paste in the boot entries. Save and exit, then reboot the machine. The system will come up with two boot options. Select "NeoGrub Bootloader" and then the Linux boot .
* First of all Boot into Vista and go into Disk Management > right-click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management.
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Right-click on the main Vista partition and select Shrink Volume, the Shrink tool will assess how much space can be freed up. As a rule of thumb Shrink will reduce the main system partition by about 50%. As long as the partition is big enough to begin with (at least 10GB) it should accommodate both operating systems. Select Shrink and the tool will reduce the volume of the primary partition, leaving the rest of the disk free as unpartitioned space. Once that's done, shut down the Vista machine.
* Once the Live CD has loaded, choose your language and select Forward >> On next page, select your location and then Forward >> On the next screen, choose the appropriate keyboard layout and then Forward [ Most of the time USA ] >> Ubuntu will then load the disk partitioner to determine where it's going to be installed. Choose "Manual - use the largest continuous free space". This will automatically select the unpartitioned space we created earlier using the Shrink tool. Click Forward.
Username , Password and click Forward > Now On the Migrate Documents and Settings screen, if Ubuntu finds any user accounts to migrate, feel free to import it from Vista to Ubuntu. If it doesn't find any, obviously this isn't an option. Click Forward. On the "Ready to install" screen, you'll see that Ubuntu now has enough information to commence the installation. In the summary under Migrate Assistant, it should say "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)". This means that regardless of whether Ubuntu found any user account to migrate, it certainly knows that Windows Vista is installed on the other partition and is aware of it. Click Install. * When the install is complete the system will reboot. When the GRUB boot menu is displayed, have a look at the last entry in the list.
After the Ubuntu boot options, there will be an entry "Other operating systems" and beneath that "Windows Vista/Longhorn loader". By default Ubuntu will load itself after 10 seconds, but you can select the Vista option and Vista will boot normally. If you want to use the GRUB bootloader then you don't need to do anything further. Ubuntu installs GRUB into the MBR by default and will happily dualboot itself and Vista. ~!~ If you prefer to keep Vista in charge of things, then you'll need to do a little bit of tweaking then boot into Ubuntu and go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal. Then, type in sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
We'll need these entries for use later on, so dump them out to a location accessible by the Vista partition. Alternatively, Ubuntu can access the Vista partition directly - go to Places --> Computer, and double-click into the option marked "xx GB Media". This is the NTFS Vista partition. Ubuntu will prompt for authentication (your Ubuntu password) and then you can either copy the entire menu.lst file into it, or create a new text file on the fly, open it with gedit and copy in the boot entries.
Goto "Manage Bootloader" and select "Reinstall the Vista Bootloader", then "Write MBR". This puts the Vista bootloader back into the MBR, but the machine will only boot into Vista. To enable access to the Linux partition, the best option is to install NeoGrub. Go to "Add/Remove Entries", go the NeoGrub tab and select "Install NeoGrub". This adds the "NeoGrub Bootloader" option to the Vista bootloader. Once that's done, choose Configure - this launches the NeoGrub menu.lst file, location at C:NSTmenu.lst. Use Notepad or Wordpad to open the file, and then paste in the boot entries. Save and exit, then reboot the machine. The system will come up with two boot options. Select "NeoGrub Bootloader" and then the Linux boot .
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