What you need to do is boot your laptop from the Ubuntu CD or
Flashdrive, Once you are in the ubuntu live session press the windows
key and a search windows will appear, type there Gparted and run it.
With Gparted you will move the Windows partition to the left and reduce
its volume to maybe 200GB, then on the unalocated space create a primary
partition of 15GB just after the windows partition, Next create a
extended or logical partition of 100GB and finally create a partition of
4 GB for swap. format the remaning unalocate space in NTFS if you want
that way it can be use for windows and Ubuntu for sharing data
Write down the name and size of each partition, they will be like sda1,
sda2, sda3. You need to remember each partition for installation. Apply
the changes and once is done reboot into windows. Windows might complain
that something is not right and your system and it will check for error.
It might freak out to find out the drive in which it is running it got
reduced but it should boot still so give it a minute. Once you know
windows is working and there is no problem you can proceed with the
installation.
Boot the Ubuntu install cd or Flashdrive and get in the live session,
connect to the wi-fi and click the install Ubuntu icon, it will ask you
if you want the installer to get all the updates during installation you
should say yes to that. It will also ask you if you want the installer
to install extra software during installation. you should say yes to
that too.
then it will ask you some other questions set up date and time and stuff
you should make sure you are well aware of what you are answering there
will all these questions.
now when it says where do you want to install Ubuntu it will give you
the option of format the entire drive, install it side by side with
windows, or something else.
You need to select something else then choose the small partition of 15
GB, give it the mount point of / and select to be formated in Btrfs .
Next select the partition of 100GB give it the mount point of /home and
select to be formated in ext4. Then select the partition of 4 GB and
select to be formated as swap
Once you have that continue with the installation, is very importand
that you also remember the user name you created and the password you
created.
Good luck to you
On 01/05/2013 10:41 PM, gcopper wrote:
I have a laptop withour windows, hd 1.5 TB 64 bit
Want to install Ubuntu 12.10 and the rest of 1.5 TB for different
downloads.
What are the steps to be successful?
Best Regards
gcopper
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