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If you’re using Windows Vista, you should use Vista’s own partitioning tool to shrink your NTFS Windows partition. Go to Start > Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management. Right click on your Vista partition and select “Shrink Volume”. If you’ve got Windows XP, Ubuntu can safely shrink it during installation. The reason we do it differently for Vista is that Vista is new and we can’t be 100% certain that Microsoft haven’t made changes to the file system that make it unsafe to use Ubuntu’s own partitioning tool. Microsoft certainly aren’t telling!

First step is to put the LiveCD in the drive and restart the machine. Once you're running off the CD, click on that “Install” icon and Ubuntu will start to guide you through the installation process. You’ll be asked some simple questions about things like your language, timezone, keyboard layout, etc.

When you get to the partitioning bit, you can shrink your NTFS Windows partition down (if you didn’t do it using Vista) and create the new root, home and swap partitions according to the plan you made earlier. Resizing and creating these partitions can take a little while, depending on the size of your drive. So maybe its time for a cup of tea and a biscuit? Nice.

After that you’ll get an option to migrate all your browser bookmarks, files, wallpapers and whatnot over from Windows and to pick an Ubuntu username and password. Take special note of the user name and password you chose. Your password will be needed any time you make any changes to Ubuntu, or to install any software.

Once finished you can boot up into your brand new fully installed Ubuntu! Congratulations!

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One of the early steps is to pick your location, just click on the map to change country.
When you get to step 4 you'll need to do your partitioning. Click on “manual” instead of “guided” partitioning.
If you haven’t resized it in Vista, hit “edit partition” for your Windows partition (NTFS) and change it to the planned amount i.e.: I changed mine to 20,000MB. Click continue on the pop-up box about resizing.
Then click on the “free space” > new partition > use as > swap (dropdown menu). Make it the size of your RAM as planned (I made mine 700MB)
To make the root partition click on “free space” again > new partition > use as > Ext3 then give it the size you planned i.e.: I gave mine 6,000MB. Click on the partition you just made > edit partition > mount point > / (dropdown menu) > OK
Click “free space” again > new partition > OK Click on that partition > edit partition > mount point > /home (dropdown menu) > OK That gives all the remaining space to your home partition.
Mine ended up looking like this:

Device

Type

Mount point

Format?

Size

Used

/dev/sda

/dev/sda1
ntfs

/media/sda1

20003 MB

18100 MB

/dev/sda2
swap

699 MB

unknown

/dev/sda3
ext3

/

Y

5996 MB

unknown

/dev/sda4
ext3

/home

Y

13316 MB

unknown

When you get to step 5 of the installation you can migrate all your Windows settings across. Click the preferred user and open up with the arrow at the side of the user name. You'll need to create an Ubuntu user for all these. It's best to use an uber safe password for this.
At the end of the menus click “install”, take out the CD when it says to and let it reboot.

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Pacman	15-07-2007, 16:05:49

There's tons more help available in the Absolute Beginners section of the Ubuntu Forums. If you've got a question why not try searching there?

azmir	14-08-2007, 01:37:10

Thanks. This is a very useful article.

Pacman	26-08-2007, 11:10:24

Thanks! If anybody has any feedback on using this guide, please do let us know how you got on.

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Device	Type	Mount point	Format?	Size	Used
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1	ntfs	/media/sda1		20003 MB	18100 MB
/dev/sda2	swap			699 MB	unknown
/dev/sda3	ext3	/	Y	5996 MB	unknown
/dev/sda4	ext3	/home	Y	13316 MB	unknown

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