To install Ubuntu outside Windows,you need a whole drive and there should be no data in it.The size of installation depends on the total space of hard disk.
Follow the following steps to install ubuntu outside the window :
- Insert the CD in CD drive and restart the computer.
- Press F8 and the choose “boot from CD” option.
- A new dialog box will open . choose ‘install ubuntu 10.04 LTS’ .
- Choose Region “India” from drop downlist of Region.
- Choose time zone.
- Click the forward button.
- Choose Keyboard Layout as USA.
- Click the forward button.
- Choose “specify partitions manually (advanced)” option.
- A “Create a Partition” dialog box is displayed. It will display your all drives along with the capacity and used space.
- Drive names written as :
dev/sda1
dev/sda5
dev/sda6
dev/sda7
- If the space of the two drive are equal then you treat your drives in the serial order as drive C: for sda 1 or drive D: for sda5 or drive E: for sda6 or drive F: for sda7.
- Now delete the drive D (which you have already vacanted in window)i.e. sda5. The space used in sda5 will now become a free space.
- Now right click in the free space and choose Add option.
- Now create swap area ( twice of RAM) , specify the file system as ‘ext4’ and choose mount point as “/ ” .
- Click on the forward option.
- Enter your name , username , password , name of computer .
- Click on the forward option.
- Now click on the install button.
- Installation is complete , take out the cd and restart the computer.
Parveen Kaur 