Aqua-Soft ForumsI downloaded the .ISO for Ubuntu and it's sitting on my desktop right now. I am a little stuck though, what the hell do I have to do to actually install it on my laptop? Burn it to a DVD or convert it to an exe or something...?
Thanks in advance.
Installing Ubuntu on Vista
sadly,i don't use anything related to the linux OS.why don't you try the original source,or google it,it should'nt be too hard to find a site with an F.A.Q. or understandable instructions.
That's a nice tutorial.. anyone know anything if you're already running Vista? Can't I make new partitions or whatever after the OS has already been installed?
And what? Do I just drag the .ISO file onto a disc, and then run the disc..? I am a little confused, can't I convert it to a .EXE and then run it directly from my computer?
its a live CD. You burn it to disk, restart your computer and have it boot off the disk. Spend 5 minutes playing around making the final decision if you want this or not, then double click install on the desktop.
the installer is pretty self explanatory, in fact it will even suggest where to install it if you can't be bothered to sort it out manually. It can't be that hard to get it on your computer, there are 6 steps and 4 of them are very basic.
edit: whoo, 1111 posts!!
I've tried running that Live CD, and it won't work on 2 of my computers. It reads the disc for like, 20 seconds, and then just proceeds to load Windows.
I've configured the BIOS and everything, no dice. Help, please!
That's a nice tutorial.. anyone know anything if you're already running Vista? Can't I make new partitions or whatever after the OS has already been installed?And what? Do I just drag the .ISO file onto a disc, and then run the disc..? I am a little confused, can't I convert it to a .EXE and then run it directly from my computer?
the tutorial still aplies, you'll just need to resize the vista parttion to make room for ubuntu then go on to modify the grub bootloader through ubuntu
and there arre dozens of free applications to write an ISO on a disc, don't Vista do it natively?
as for your booting problem alpha2zulu do you have an option to choose the drive you can boot on, usually you press F12
psh, I told the BIOS to load the CD ROM first, but I'll try it...
A2Z i did have the same problem went in to bios and changed it up too to boot from cd never got it working let me know if you do thanks.
I am having some problems with drivers and the like after having installed Vista, so I can't burn it onto a disc, you guys know how I can just run it? No disc stuff, just simply install or convert the ISO?
if you want to boot Ubuntu with the LiveCD, you need to write the ISO to the CD with an ISO recorder such as nero. just copying the file it to a CD doesnt work.
think of the ISO as a ZIP file of some sort
duhh :slant:, you shouldve said that, slewed
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Hasn't ubuntu got a windows installer now ? Simply some NSIS installer that you run under your windows environnement and does all the job for you.
If I remember well Debian exsists in this form, so does Kubuntu (if I remember well) so should Ubuntu
Okay, so i am ready to install, but can I delete it if it starts pissing me off? without system mess-ups?
I've tried running that Live CD, and it won't work on 2 of my computers. It reads the disc for like, 20 seconds, and then just proceeds to load Windows.I've configured the BIOS and everything, no dice. Help, please!
The CD might not have burned properly as a result of the .ISO file not downloading correctly. This happened to me for at least two discs before I figured out this was the problem.
Compare the md5 hash against the one provided on the server. Look here, though I'm sure there are more friendly ways of finding out what the md5 signature is.
-NC
well.....yeah....but my reason is more likely lol
@spyro94-
if you start to get sick of it, you can remove it easily by just popping in the Live CD again, then removing the partion of your HD that has uBuntu on it. simple as that
but make sure that before you do so you have a copy of the WIndows installation CD. this way you can restore the Master Boot Record.
This can be done by booting up the Windows installation CD, going to "repair", and entering "C:/FIXMBR"
at the command prompt.
seriously guys, im gonna make a guide
I'm not doing live cd, I'm doing it diferrently
ohh.....what are you doing it with? Virtual Machines or the alternate disk image?
Virtual machines, if I install it, can I delete it and can it just use memory as it needs it (RAM) and I don't have to assign a certain amount of RAM to it?
Just for the record Ubuntu won't work with Microsoft Virtual PC, (some video error) but other types of linux do. (If anybody cared)
an ISO is a disk image.... ie- An exact copy of a CD.
If you simply burn the ISO to the CD using Windows XP, it will not work properly and will only appear as a file on the disk.
to burn an ISO to a disk you need a special program such as Nero or Nero express, (or Toast for Mac OSX users).
You will need to tell the program you want to burn an ISO image to disk, select the ISO and then the program will then 'unpack' the contents of the ISO image and lay it out to make an exact replica of the original CD.
The thing is, I can't burn it, not to mention find any cd's big enough... all mine are just a few megs too low
I can get to the install link, but I want to be sure I can uninstall it if I get sick of it, without a LiveCD. Is that possible?
the LiveCDs DO NOT work in Virtual PC.
there really isnt an uninstall option. if you are installing it on a partioned hard drive, to get rid of it is a little bit of a hassle. you need an XP installation disk and the LiveCD.
Use the XP installation disk to remove GRUB (ubuntu's bootloader) via the guide i am making 
, and use the Live CD to delete the partion that ubuntu is installed on
an ISO is a disk image.... ie- An exact copy of a CD.If you simply burn the ISO to the CD using Windows XP, it will not work properly and will only appear as a file on the disk.
to burn an ISO to a disk you need a special program such as Nero or Nero express, (or Toast for Mac OSX users).
You will need to tell the program you want to burn an ISO image to disk, select the ISO and then the program will then 'unpack' the contents of the ISO image and lay it out to make an exact replica of the original CD.
OH... so NC's advice on drag-and-drop was no good... Thanks for your help.
EDIT: Link for freeware app to do it. http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm