I am going to write about dual booting windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 on a fresh machine which has a non partitioned disc space. Dual booting can be done in a host of several ways like installing windows 7 first and then Ubuntu and using Ubuntu loader, installing Ubuntu first and then windows and using windows loader, installing windows 7 first and then Ubuntu and using windows 7 boot loader, etc. When you search in the internet for dual booting of windows 7 and Ubuntu you get a cocktail of results combining all this. But here I am going to exactly tell you how to dual boot by the method I am most familiar with. I am writing this as I have failed to find a good instructions on the web. I will try to make the method as clear as possible.This method is used only when you are using a fresh non partitioned machine. In this method windows 7 is installed first and then Ubuntu. The tutorial is going to be step by step. This tutorial assumes that you boot both your windows 7 and Ubuntu from CD and that the user knows how to boot from a CD.
- ensure you have a copy of windows 7 CD and Ubuntu CD
- insert windows 7 CD in and boot from it.
- using the windows 7 installation CD partition the Hard Disk leaving 15GB of space without doing anything.
- Finish the installation of windows 7 as usual without considering the 15GB of blank space.
- now insert the Ubuntu installation CD.
- Click to start installation
- Tree options appear like: replace windows, install Ubuntu along with windows 7, something else. Select something else.
- Now select the non partitioned 15B of space.
- Create a swap partition of space 4GB(or double that of RAM space).Swap area is made using drop down menu for create partition.
- Now create an primary partition of 11GB to install Ubuntu using external 4 format from drop down menu.
- show the newly formatted 11GB of space to install Ubuntu.
- finish the installation of Ubuntu.
- Provide a user name and a STRONG password to complete the installation successfully.
- Restart the machine.
- You will see a purple screen with 5 options. This is the Ubuntu loader.
- Select the OS you want from this.
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