Try WUBI, just for fun. Insert an Ubuntu CD in the drive while in Windows. It will install Ubuntu on your C: drive at C:\ubuntu\. It will create a disk image (8 or 10 GBs is enough to try) of Ubuntu and after you re-boot it will mount the image as if it was a drive and then you are running Ubuntu from your C: drive without Windows. No partitioning. It will be just like Ubuntu internally (inside the image file). It's like magic!
Tip: defrag your drive first. You can later remove Ubuntu from the Windows control panel and if you liked it then you can try a full installation on the D: drive. http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide If you do not want to make a CD and have a fast connection then you can have WUBI download Ubuntu and install. Here is the link to the exe file. What could be easier? http://wubi.sourceforge.net/ Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 3 February 2011 15:11, m <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected] <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>, > Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote: > > > > I am dual booting Kubuntu on a Windows 7 box. I have not seen that it > dual > > boots any worse than XP did on my old one. > > > > Roy > > > > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit > > Location: Canada > > > Thanks for your reply, Roy. I believe the issue has something to do with > the GRUB 2 which apparently didn't give you any problems. Maybe it's a > relatively rare problem so I'm certainly not going to worry about it now. It > may be some time before I even install as I have no real need yet. My > antivirus seems to be working well, I haven't needed to reboot once *yet* > and 7 is not a totally undesirable product. Besides, I paid for it anyway, > right? lol A bit of justification there. > Mark > Stuck in South Carolina > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
