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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Original Settings
windows xp sp2
with:
Drive C: – windows XP os directory +some files
Drive D: – files like mp3, avi and etc…
and now after installing Ubuntu…
Drive C: – windows XP os directory +some files
Drive D: – files + “UBUNTU install directory”
booting up windows XP sp2
Drive C: – OK
Drive D: – all files intact +Ubuntu folder(install)
booting up Ubuntu OS
Drive C: – seems no problem accessing it
Drive D: – here’s the problem, i can’t see/accessed any files that belong to the previous drive D:, i only the the ubuntu installation on that drive.
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hi, need help… please…
have 80gig capacity, with 4 partitions
C, D, E, F…
C is where Windows XP Pro is installed..
i tried to install ubuntu (intrepid) to F (9gig free space) , using power iso, no cd, just within windows.. (cd driver is kinda busted)..
but when i already booted ubuntu, the orange bar freezes. it bounces off from side to side a couple of times, but after that, it just freezes..
i also tried hardy heron .. (was that the name?), still the same..
please help ubuntu experts..
please email me at mcadelcastillo@gmail.com
thanks a million
It sounds so good, I think I’ll try it.
This is a great step foward from (and for) the Ubuntu Community!!!
But what if I try to install ubuntu on a non-windows partition? I tried it and ended up with ubuntu not booting or even not selectable from the vista’s boot loader.
This article was on installing Ubuntu on windows…
Hi, Thanks for the excellent guide. I have the choice of installing as you have described or I could use a conventional dual boot with Ubuntu in a clean 10MByte partition that is available. Will Ubuntu run quicker if it has a ‘real’ disk rather than one emulated via a folder on XP? Are there any other pro/cons one way or the other?
I haven’t really compared dual boot over the technique of installing ubuntu in windows, as explained above. But I will say that the above technique was not at all bad, in terms of performance.