Step 3: Before you go any further, ensure all important data is backed up, in case of data loss on all your drives. This guide assumes you have media backups of your Windows partitioned hard drive, and you are safe to proceed. Hint: Installing another operating system without first ensuring you have backups of your current files and operating system is a big risk. If you have no data to lose, or youve backed up important data, youre now ready to proceed. Im not responsible if you lose data. Step 4: Ensure you have a network cable connected, and restart your computer, and boot from the CD drive. Step 5: The Live CD will load up, and youll be presented by the following box: For the purposes of this guide, we’ll assume you’ve already seen and tried Ubuntu, and want to go ahead and install it now. So to get started, let’s click “Install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS”

Step 6: Youll now be greeted by the box below, with the where are you? title, exactly as below: Select your current region. Step 7: The next screen youll see is the keyboard layout screen as below: It should already be set to the correct keyboard (its uses your region to find the best match), so confirm it is correct.

Step 8: The screen that now greets you is the prepare disk space screen. Picture is below: You have three options: 1. You can install them side by side letting the installer sort it for you automatically. 2. You can use the guided disk utility, and let the installer automatically erase and then format an entire disk (you can select the disk from the drop down box) 3. You can specify the partitions manually, for advanced users, or those wanting to create several seperate partitions. This is ideal if you would like to set partitions a certain size, so your not wasting too much hard disk space. Hint: Linux recognises and assigns IDs to drive in a different manner to Windows. In the above image you can clearly see hard disk in the list. It is identified by sda. Linux recognises hard disks in the following way: Sda = 1st hard disk Sdb = 2nd hard disk Sdc = 3rd hard disk and so on. You will not see the common windows C: in the disk menu in the above list. You do however have key things to help you recognise your windows c: drive. Both of these can be used to identify which is your windows disk. The size of the disk is shown The name of the drive is shown

Option 1: Install them side by side, choosing between them each startup This option will be the most common one for users wishing to use only one hard disk. Its far easier for an inexperienced person to let the installer do the work for you. Ensure this option is selected, and then click forward and youll then be greeted by the following box: Click continue, and then proceed to step 9, ignoring option 2/3 below. Option 2: Erase entire disk and use for Linux The easiest option by far is to select a 2nd disk from the list which doesnt contain your Windows partition, and erase and use the entire disk. If you have a 2nd hard disk, use this option, but remember to check your using your non-windows hard disk! So select the correct disk, and press forward. Continue to step 9 ignoring option 3 below.. Option 3: Manually specify partitions (advanced) This is the most difficult option, but Ill go through it step by step. So select Manually specify partitions and click forward and youll be greeted with a screen similar to below. Firstly, identify your windows installation... In my case it is sda1 (which is my first hard disk, 1st partition). Now depending on how youve created the extra space, depends on what you see. In my case, I just resized the windows partition from within windows, and left the free space ready to install Windows. I recommend using Windows, or a free utility from within Windows to resize your partition as most beginners will understand it more. So now we need to create a minimum of two partitions. So you do the following: Click Add and youll be greeted with this box:

Hint: You can have a maximum of 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions, and 1 logical (which allows for another 4 partitions) The size above is 24.074GB. e.g 1,000 = 1GB 10,000 = 10GB [small]Location for new partition: e.g. do you want it at the start or end of the free space. Select beginning. Use as: Ext4 is Ubuntus file system, much the same as NTFS is Windows. SWAP is for SWAP space. Mount point: This is where you want the partition to mount. E.g. we need a root partition. So below is my root partition with information filled out ready to click OK: In my case I choose 20GB, but you could use as little as 5GB if you wish. I dont really have much issue with hard disk space, but you might. So I clicked OK, and now its added my new partition table as below: We now need to add the swap space. So click Add again, and then set the size (in my case Im just using the remaining space), and change the use as box to Swap area and click OK. you should now have something looking like this So lets recap whats above: /Dev/sda1 is your ntfs windows partition /Dev/sda2 is your new / partition (the linux equivalent of windows C: disk) /Dev/sda3 is your swap space. Once your happy with these changes, click forward, and proceed to step 9 below.

The next screen is the who are you? as below: Fill in the details as requested on the screen, and then when completed click forward The next screen is the ready to install screen as shown below: Click restart now to restart your computer.When requested, remove your CD, and press enter to reboot. Your all done!

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Fine topic, very helpful. Thanks

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thnkx man ,iv always wanted 2 try linux out !

wer cn i download tutorials on programming or developing in linux ?

what flavour do you want t install and to know there are lots of flavour in linux like redhat,ubuntu,centos,fedora....each is diff from some points .all re free try one and u can get tutorials about linux in their own website itself like redhat.com orelse just google search it there are lots of tutorial about linux tnx