Step by Step Guide To Dual boot Vista and Linux
First of all - Prepare the Vista partition:
- · Boot into Windows Vista and go into Disk Management - right-click My Computer, Manage and then Disk Management.
- · 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 un-partitioned space. Once that's done, shut down the Vista machine.
Download burn and Install Ubuntu:
Look for desktop ISO of Ubuntu (8.04). Choose from a list of download mirrors from the Ubuntu website. Download the Ubuntu ISO and burn CD to create bootable CD.
- · Boot the Vista machine from the CD and select "Install Ubuntu".
- · Once the Live CD has loaded, on the Welcome screen choose your language and select Forward.
- · On the "Where are you" (timezone) page, select your location and then Forward.
- · On the next screen, choose the appropriate keyboard layout and then Forward.
- · 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.
- · You will see "Who are you?" screen, enter your username and password, then click.
- · On the Migrate Documents and Settings screen, if Ubuntu finds any user accounts to migrate, then 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.
- · See the install through and then let it boot into Ubuntu. 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.
There will be an entry "Other operating systems" after the Ubuntu boot options and below that "Windows Vista/Longhorn loader". Ubuntu will load itself after 10 seconds, In between you can select Vista option if you want to boot from Vista.
Choose the bootloader for dual booting:
Use GRUB bootloader. Nothing more to do further. Ubuntu will install GRUB into the MBR and will dualboot itself and Vista.
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