Does anybody know a good tutorial for installing Ubuntu on a PC with Windows 7?

[shant93]

I have Windows 7 running on an HP Pavillion DV7 Laptop, 500GB hard drive. On this hard drive, I have 50GB non-allocated, waiting for Ubuntu. Does anybody know a good tutorial for my situation? Or, do you know how to go about this?

[galaxyAbstractor]

Just boot from the CD and install on the empty partition. Thats the way I did it and it works for me at least.

Make sure you don't install ubuntu along windows (oprion in installer), as I heard that will make you lose all windows data.

[dibb3386]

Hey found a tutorial for you to follow if you didnt already start.

http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+b...erfect-harmony

[shant93]

It appears that the guys at Staples never gave me my Windows 7 installation disk, just a recovery disk. That sucks.

[DeadBattery]

I installed Ubuntu dual booting with Windows 7 and it worked great.
I didn't use a tutorial though, I created all the partitions manually.

[shant93]

would the recovery disk reinstall windows 7 if something wrong happened?

[justin.scherer14]

Yeah the recovery disk would help with that. Also, all you will need to do is put in the live CD. Then when it asks you for a partitioning scheme, you click the, fill empty space or something like that. It will then install Ubuntu on that 50GB space that is left open. Trust me on this, I have built around 15 computers for people and also fixing many and some had to do this with. There is a very very small chance that something will go wrong, if it does, look on the Ubuntu forums, they will help you with everything you need. Also, if you need any direct help just ask me, I am not saying I am a professional on all of this but I have been installing Linux, specifically Ubuntu, a lot. Good luck!

[shant93]

Alright, I got the live CD and ran the demo (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS), it worked awesome. There is one prob though. There was only two options for the installation, which are: Erase all and install, and, configure partitions manually. I clicked on the second one but I was very confused and did not see my unallocated space. What am I supposed to do?

[galaxyAbstractor]

If you, under Windows, go to control panel->administrative tools->computer management->storage->disk management, do you see any partition marked black and says "unallocated"? Like the 9MB unallocated part of my usb stick:


Or did you format the unallocated partition to something, like NTFS?

[shant93]

Yes I had a black section with 50.0GB

I then tried allocating a simple partition to it, 50GB, labelled "Ubuntu", and it recognizes it, but it says it is 178gb, I'm afraid to install in cas it overwrites some files

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Edit:

Also, When I try to install on the Ubuntu Partition, I get an Error message saying "Daemon inhibited"

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The current state of my partitions, after having deleted the "Ubuntu" partition: