Install ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on windows
Install ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on windows vista and XP, straight from ubuntu CD, without any need to manually partition the hard drive.Wubi has now been integrated with ubuntu 8.10 and the installation on windows has been made much simpler.
Earlier we covered how to install ubuntu on windows by downloading Wubi installer. We also covered another tutorial to install ubuntu on a virtual PC setup in windows.
Now this tutorial is on installing ubuntu 8.10 from the ubuntu CD.The installation process takes care of automatically partitioning your hard drive.
How to install ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on windows?
- Free Download the Ubuntu ISO image from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and save it on your PC
- Burn the ISO image to a blank CD using the free ISORecorder to write ISO image to CD or ImgBurn to burn ISO to CD
- Insert the CD on to your computer system’s CD drive and run it
- Select “install inside Windows” and follow the simple instructions. From here, the installation is taken care by the integrated Wubi installer and you will find the same screens like installing using Wubi.However, this process uses the Grub Bootloader to start Ubuntu.
Next, you will get to see the following screen:
- Set up the installation drive, where you want to install ubuntu 8.10
- choose your preferred language
- Set up the desired installation size,depending upon the available disk space
- choose the ubuntu flavour to install like kubuntu, Xubuntu and Mythbuntu
- Specify an username and a password for the new account, and click “install”
- After the installation files are prepared, you will be asked to reboot the PC
- After reboot, select ubuntu at the boot screen
The Intrepid Ibex installation will finish to completion and the machine will restart again.Now you can choose an operating system to start on your windows boot manager.Here you can choose ubuntu (or any other flavour that you had installed) and start using it.
That is all folks!!! Kudos to ubuntu, for making making ubuntu installation on windows so easy. Install ubuntu 8.10 and enjoy!!!
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I’ve read good reviews on the new Ubuntu 8.10 package, so I will be installing it as soon as my disc gets delivered.
You can download wubi installer and not wait for it
Installing Ubuntu at “Drive D:”
what if “Drive D:” still have some file like movies, mp3, others files…
will those files be lost when installation?
No.Only the space (installation size) that you specify, is used.
so there will be no data loss?
my Drive C: is Windows XP
my Drive D: total size is 40gb
used space is 20gb
free space is 20gb
used space stays intact?
yes….
how do you think that it will use the used space? Don’t get too worried ad try it if you want…
thanks it worked!
but i have another concern, after I installed ubuntu into my Drive D: it seems that i can’t accessed previous files in my Drive D: like mp3’s and avi’s.
I can only accessed my previous files from Drive C:
how do I accessed/solved this?
You should be able to access them. Are you using XP or vista? Are you able to see all the files in that drive? What happens when you try to open those files?
If you have enough disk space, you should be getting any problem.
Hello there,
The Same thing happened to me I installed Ubuntu on my Media HD but now I can not see them 8(, I can see them in Vista Thou, so I guess is a matter of turning something on or off, but I don’t know were to look.
Thanks in Advance for your help
what you cannot see and where?
This tutorial is on installation of ubuntu on windows.
if you are trying to access windows files then you can do so via the Windows partitions available within the directories /host and /media.
Check out my other article(linked in this post) for using Wubi installer.