Ultimate Predator Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Ah yes, of course. Had trouble understanding how to install ubuntu on a seperate partition I had already made, and without a backup of my data, or a Windows installation DVD, I was worried and didn't do it in the end. One day I will though. Or, I'll install Xubuntu just for awesome performance. Do you think it better? Is gobuntu feasible to use? What is the advantage of Kubuntu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 If you have a friendly local computer shop UP, he will do you a backup copy of Windows, it is legal because he will only be giving you a copy without the serial key. Thats how I get mine nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Ah yes, of course. Had trouble understanding how to install ubuntu on a seperate partition I had already made, and without a backup of my data, or a Windows installation DVD, I was worried and didn't do it in the end. One day I will though. Or, I'll install Xubuntu just for awesome performance. Do you think it better? Is gobuntu feasible to use? What is the advantage of Kubuntu? Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop environment, instead of the GNOME desktop environment that Ubuntu uses. Xfce is more light-weight, so its a better choice for slightly older computers. Xfce since its lighter, also is a bit faster, so you can choose it, for better desktop performance, but most people go with Ubuntu. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with the KDE desktop environment, instead of the GNOME desktop environment that Ubuntu uses. Some prefer KDE over GNOME, thats why there is Kubuntu. KDE might have more settings, while GNOME is more simpler. I don't know if Gobuntu is feasible, its a bit more hardcore. Not a good idea for a new user to directly jump on Gobuntu. Most people go with Ubuntu, its the standard flavor of Ubuntu. So that is probably what you should go with too. You can run it from the LiveCD to play around with it, without installing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 If you have a friendly local computer shop UP, he will do you a backup copy of Windows, it is legal because he will only be giving you a copy without the serial key. Thats how I get mine nowadays. Good idea, will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 Ah yes, of course. Had trouble understanding how to install ubuntu on a seperate partition I had already made, and without a backup of my data, or a Windows installation DVD, I was worried and didn't do it in the end. One day I will though. Or, I'll install Xubuntu just for awesome performance. Do you think it better? Is gobuntu feasible to use? What is the advantage of Kubuntu? Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop environment, instead of the GNOME desktop environment that Ubuntu uses. Xfce is more light-weight, so its a better choice for slightly older computers. Xfce since its lighter, also is a bit faster, so you can choose it, for better desktop performance, but most people go with Ubuntu. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with the KDE desktop environment, instead of the GNOME desktop environment that Ubuntu uses. Some prefer KDE over GNOME, thats why there is Kubuntu. KDE might have more settings, while GNOME is more simpler. I don't know if Gobuntu is feasible, its a bit more hardcore. Not a good idea for a new user to directly jump on Gobuntu. Most people go with Ubuntu, its the standard flavor of Ubuntu. So that is probably what you should go with too. You can run it from the LiveCD to play around with it, without installing it. I see. It would be a hard choice betwene normal Ubuntu and Xubuntu. I wo't install it on this PC, I made a separate partition for it, and I couldn't find anywhere in the installer for me to select that partition for Ubuntu to install to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I see. It would be a hard choice betwene normal Ubuntu and Xubuntu. I wo't install it on this PC, I made a separate partition for it, and I couldn't find anywhere in the installer for me to select that partition for Ubuntu to install to. If you have a modern computer, you should probably go with Ubuntu. It is the default flavor. .) The installer does ask you to partition the disk. The Ubuntu community have created a guide to guide you through the installation; * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Graphical...1d06d657ae5d6bf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 I see. It would be a hard choice betwene normal Ubuntu and Xubuntu. I wo't install it on this PC, I made a separate partition for it, and I couldn't find anywhere in the installer for me to select that partition for Ubuntu to install to. If you have a modern computer, you should probably go with Ubuntu. It is the default flavor. .) The installer does ask you to partition the disk. The Ubuntu community have created a guide to guide you through the installation; * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Graphical...1d06d657ae5d6bf Thanks for the reply. I'm going to sound annoying now, but I have looked through that guide, how do I select a partition that I have already made? And how do I know it is the right partition as Ubuntu doesn't use letters. Addi tonally, will this only install on that partition, and not format other partitions, as this image made me wonder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Thanks for the reply. I'm going to sound annoying now, but I have looked through that guide, how do I select a partition that I have already made? And how do I know it is the right partition as Ubuntu doesn't use letters. Addi tonally, will this only install on that partition, and not format other partitions, as this image made me wonder. /dev/hda or /dev/sda is the first disk. hdb or sdb is second disk, and hdc or sdc are third disk. hd is for IDE/PATA. sd is for SCSI and SATA. sda is first, sdb is second, sdc is third, sdd is fourth, etc. Then letter are the partitions. sda1, sda2, sda3, etc. But if you use extended partitions, then its sda1, sda5, sda6, etc. (This actually makes sense if you understand partitions, since only the first four partitions can be logical) Windows usually only have one partition. Windows store the swap file on the system partition. Linux usually have two partitions. One partition for the operating system, and another "swap partition" for swap data (direct raw access for swap, rather than to have to go through a file system). However, you choose not to use a swap partition. I have 4gb RAM so I disabled swap partition. I guess you select the "Manually edit partition tables" option. But if you don't have made any partition, you can just let the installer resize your current partitions. What I did was that I bought another hard disk, unplugged the Windows disk, and installed Ubuntu with only the other disk attached to the computer. This way, I get Windows and Ubuntu on completely separate disks, and no risk for anything to go wrong. Also I can backup my stuff from my Windows disk (disk 1), to my Ubuntu disk (disk 2), so if one of the disks would crash for some reason, then I still have backups. sda1 = Windows XP sda5 = Media sda6 = Media sdb1 = Ubuntu sdb2 = Backup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 I got a partition, I just want to know how to select the right one. I'll tell you the drive letter slater when my laptop is switched on. Thank you for the info, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 Havenät sued my laptop in ages, just someone mentioned GParted can help or something? Anyways, I'll stick my partition dirve letter up here soon, and then loads of help would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 GParted is a partition manger that comes on the Ubuntu LiveCD. It can be used to create, manage, destroy, resize, etc disk partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 I see. Well, I'll list up my drives etc, and ask for help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted March 26, 2008 Administrator Share Posted March 26, 2008 This topic has been created by being split from the Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost thread. Just stating this in case some posts may not make much sense. :hmm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 No worries. Right, I have one harddrick on my laptop, which has 3 partitions, ACER - C: (for Windows, DATA - D: (for data), and DATA 2 - F: (for ubuntu). Ideally, I want to install ubuntu in the future to F:, which is currently just under 15 GIG in space. A step by step guide owuld be great, though I can wait till I get a disk through for the latest release, and then write down all the stuff it says when I select manual partition. I would really appreciate this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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