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Installation :

You can easily install ubuntu on your laptop/desktop via 2 methods.

1. Installing it inside windows’ partition.

• This one is really easy.
• When working on windows, put the Ubuntu Live CD inside the CD-ROM.
• In the AutoPlay menu launch the Install inside Windows feature.
• Select the desired options and here you have you ubuntu running fine.

PS- Installing it in supposing D drive would lead all the contents of D drive inaccessible from Ubuntu.

2. Installing on a separate partition.

• Put in your Ubuntu Live CD and reboot your computer.
• Now boot from your CD-ROM and enter into the Ubuntu Live CD.
• Now select the Install feature. A installer much like windows one would pop up.
• Follow the options that occur blindly except for the partition manager.
• Make sure you select it to manually specify the partitions or else your whole HDD would get formated.
• In the partition manager, you would get the partitions on HDD, you can recognize them with there size. For eg. 106 GB partition is supposed to be my E drive… similarily.
• Select the one you want to format and install ubuntu on then click on edit partition.
• Format the partition to ext3/ext4 format, and mark, use this space as ‘/’
• Now click on Next, it would ask you to create a swap partition, if you have enough memory on your RAM click on continue, other wise create another partition atleast 256mb and use it as swap.
• Finally enter remaining details and you are good to go.

Hope this article helps you install Linux on your machine.