Alright guys. Just remember this How 2 was written for my public speaking class and they have no experience doing this kind of thing so I tried to keep it as simple as possible. Step by step. Screen by screen. Any input would be appreciated. Also I'm using an older version of Ubuntu that I have. Instead of burning copies for everyone I have the commercial looking CDs. I got them from John for this purpose.
Warning! Back up all documents, pictures, or any other files you want to save. The following procedure will erase everything off of the hard drive.
The following steps will walk you through a complete installation of Windows XP and Ubuntu(Linux).
1.Take your Windows XP CD and put in the CD-ROM drive, and restart the computer.
2.When the computer says: Press any key to boot from CD... Press the ENTER key
3.You will then get a plain blue screen loading files, This will take a couple of minutes.
4.Upon reaching the “Welcome to Setup.” screen, the following options will be available: To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.
5.Press ENTER
6.Read the following license agreement: Press F8 to continue to the next screen.
7.The next screen will give you the option to repair a previous installation of Windows XP. To repair the selected Windows XP installation, press R. To continue installing a fresh copy of Windows WP without repairing, press ESC.
8.Press ESC to continue installing a fresh copy of Windows XP.
9.The following list will show the existing partitions and unpartitioned space on this computer. Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select an item in this list. To set up Windows XP on selected items, press ENTER. To create a partition in the unpartitioned space, press C. To delete the selected partition, press D. We are going to delete all partitions. a.) Highlight the first partition and press D. b.) (If you get a screen warning you about deleting a system partition.) Press ENTER c.) Then Press L.
10.Continue with steps a, b, and c until you only have one item in the list: Unpartitioned space * MB Where the * represents any number. For example it could read “39865 MB” or “20000 MB”
11.Once all partitions are deleted it is now time to create a new partition. Press C.
12.We are only going to use half of the maximum size for the new partition. Use the BACKSPACE key to delete the numbers. Now you will type in half the number of the original number. (For example if you have 38000 MB, then you will type in the new number to be 19000 and press ENTER.)
13.Now you will highlight the new partition: C: Partition1 [New (Raw)} * MB ( * MB Free) Press ENTER.
14.At the next screen you need to highlight: Format the partition using NTFS file system Press ENTER.
15.Now you can sit back and relax for a while. The hard drive will be formatted. Then files will be copied to the hard drive. After the files are copied to the hard drive, the computer will restart itself. Let it continue on it's own. After the computer restarts it will continue installing Windows XP. About 7 minutes after the restart you will be asked for some information: Click NEXT. Enter your name and click NEXT. Enter product key and click NEXT. If you choose to use a password, enter it now, otherwise leave it blank and click NEXT. Enter your area code and click NEXT. Enter the date, time, and time zone and click NEXT.
16.From this point it will take approximately 30-45 minutes (depending on the speed of your computer) to complete the installation of the system files.
17.After the installation is complete you will be asked to follow some simple configuration steps and then your computer is ready to run Windows XP.
Now that you have installed Windows XP, you are now ready to install Ubuntu onto your system.
1.Take the Ubuntu install CD and insert it into the CD-ROM drive and restart the computer.
2.Upon reaching the Ubuntu title screen, press ENTER, to continue.
3.Choose the language in which you will be using on your system. (More than likely it will be English which is the default.)
4.Choose your location and press ENTER.
5.Choose your keyboard layout and press ENTER. (This will probably be American English.)
6.Ubuntu will now detect what hardware you have in your computer. You may get a warning at this point. “No network interfaces detected.” If this happens don't panic. It just means that your computer won't be ready to connect to a network for lack of specific hardware. Highlight <Continue> and press ENTER.
7.Ubuntu will now ask you for a hostname. (The hostname is equivalent to Windows' computer name, the default name is “ubuntu”.) Press ENTER, after entering a hostname.
8.You will then reach the “Partition disks” screen, where it asks you to choose a partitioning method: For this we will choose: Manually edit partition table. Press ENTER.
9.When you get to the screen that has: #1 primary * GB ntfs pri/log * GB Free space You will choose the second item in the list. pri/log * GB Free space press ENTER
10.At the next screen you will choose the option: “Automatically partition the free space.” Press ENTER
11.Now you will choose the option to: “Finish the partitioning and write the changes to disk.” Press ENTER.
12.You will then be asked, “Write these changes to disk.” Highlight <Yes> and press ENTER.
13.Now Ubuntu will begin copying files to the hard drive. Sit back and relax this will take several minutes.
14.The next screen that you receive will be asking you to: “Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?” Highlight <Yes> and press ENTER.
15.Now, “First stage of installation complete.” Remove CD. Highlight <Continue> and press ENTER.
16.Once your computer restarts you will have a screen that gives you options of which operating system you want to use. It should look something like: Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386 Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.1-3.386 (recovery mode) Memory test Other operating systems: Windows NT/2000/XP For now, choose the top option and press ENTER.
17.Welcome to your new Ubuntu system! Highlight <Ok> and press ENTER.
18.Is the hardware clock set to GMT? (Greenwich Mean Time) More than likely the answer will be no. So Highlight the <No> and press ENTER.
19.Choose the time zone and press ENTER.
20.Enter the full name of the user. (You're full name)
21.Now it's time to choose your username, and press ENTER.
22.Make a password for the user. (Passwords are required for this, unlike Windows.) Press ENTER. Then re-enter the password you chose. Press ENTER.
23.“Download software from the internet?” For now highlight <No> and press ENER.
24.Time to sit back and relax while Ubuntu finishes installing on your system.
25.It will then give you, “Setup complete.” Highlight <Ok> and press enter.
26.Now you can log on to your new Linux system. Type your username and press ENTER. Type you password and press ENTER.
CONGRATULATIONS! You are now officially a Linux user. For more information on Linux and any technical questions you may have. Feel free to visit http://www.newbieslinux.com. My screen name is xannash. Also feel free to email me at xannash@yahoo.com.