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Tuesday 22 October 2013

How to install Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 7

Install Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows for beginners

Requirements:

Windows operating system

Hard disk space atleast 40GB or above

Ubuntu 13.04 live DVD

1. Insert the Ubuntu 13.04 DVD in DVDROM and reboot system

2. Click Install Ubuntu

3. Select Install Ubuntu alongside with Windows

4. Click “Install Now”

5. Select your location/region

6. Continue/English(US)/Continue/Type your name and computer/Continue

It will take about 30 minutes depending on your system speed and configurations

How to get your root password for the purpose of installing other software packages

1. Open terminal by clicking Ctrl-Alt-T

2. On the prompt type sudo -s

3. It will display [sudo] password for sani: (type password here)

4. root@sani:~#

$ sudo passwd root

[sudo] password for sani:

Enter new UNIX password:

Retype new UNIX password:

Password : updated password successfully

sani@sani-desktop:~$

How to edit grub to change TIMEOUT

Type at the prompt: sudo -s

root@sani-desktop:~# gedit /etc/default/grub

You will see the window given below:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

GRUB_TIMEOUT=10

GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Change 10 to -1 at the following line as below

GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1

Note this will let the system wait indefinitely unless you select either Windows or Ubuntu during booting.

Now do as follows:

Ctrl-S - this will save the changes done just now

Ctrl-q -To quit the window

sudo update-grub – This will apply the changes made

Reboot the system

Install Ubuntu 13.04 in Windows 7 Using VMware

How to Install Ubuntu 13.04 in Windows 7 Using VMWare

Using VMware Player, you can launch Ubuntu from Windows desktop without rebooting the system. Life become so easy as you can switch off or on the Ubuntu OS. For that you need atleast 2GB RAM and 30GB Hard disk. Though Ubuntu image requires less than 5GB, its always good to have larger space.

Step-by-step procedure

1. Install Windows 7

2. Download Ubuntu Image from http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=e0a9cf8f37f7c834e960c05d0503f9d2be4c18c1

3. Store Ubuntu image in a drive having sufficient space.

4. Download VMware 5.02 from http://www.vmware.com/support/player50/doc/player-502-release-notes.html

5. Install VMware Player from the Windows.

6. To start Player on a Windows host system, select
Start > Programs > VMware Player

7. Click on Create a New Virtual Machine

8. Give the path where Ubuntu image is located. The detail for installation and configuring the VMware can be found on the link: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/desktop/vmware_player50.pdf

9.Next time when you launch the VMware, you can select "Open Virtual Machine" and select Ubuntu

10. Click Play Virtual Machine to open the Ubuntu

11. You click on 'Edit Virtual machine settings' for settings like memory specification, accessing the Windows partition disks, etc.

12. To switch off the VMware just click on 'X' button on the top right side.

Saturday 12 October 2013

How to Install Ubuntu 13.04 in Windows 7 Using VMWare

Sunday 6 October 2013

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

A disk read error occured
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

Often you come across the above message when you update operating system in dual boot system: Windows 7 and Linux like Ubuntu 13.04.
Your Ubuntu is working well but cannot boot Windows 7. You can correct this problem just by modifying the grub.cfg file in Ubuntu as follows:

Note that you cannot directly modify grub.cfg file. But there is a way to do it as explained below.

First you need to check the grub.cfg file. In Ubuntu13.04, you can see this file by clicking Files/Computer/boot/grub/grub.cfg

The grub.cfg file starts with the following text.

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
...........
.............

Under "### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### " you may see the insmod as ldm.
The set root was set to /ldm/(lotofhexnumbers)/volume1.

In my system, Windows 7 is installed in first partition and Ubuntu in second partition drive.

You can edit above two lines from the root.
Go to terminal sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Change the two lines as given below:

insmod part_msdos

set root='(hd0,msdos1)'

One way to modify grub.cfg is to edit 40_custom file under etc/grub.d/40_custom
But the easiest way is to use the command sudo -w /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Save it, reboot the system and selecting the Windows will boot normally.

Fresh Installation of Windows XP

Fresh Installation of Windows XP

Supposed that your system has multiple problems or has been seriously infected by virus in which case you need to format your system and install fresh Windows XP.

Steps for installation of Windows XP in your system:

1. Insert Windows XP DVD in the DVD ROM
2. Press F8 during initial booting
3. Wait for "Press any key to boot from CD" message
4. Press Enter key from Windows Setup
5. Press F8 (=I agree)
6. Press Esc key to install fresh Windows XP
7. Select the system (active) drive say C drive
8. Delete the active drive
9. Press L to delete the partition (active)
10.Create a partition by pressing C from the keyboard
11.Press Enter key for maximum partition space(depending on your requirement)
12.Press Enter key to start Windows setup process
13.Press Enter key to start formating and installation
14.Enter the name and location/region
15. Enter product key

It takes about 35 minutes for a Pentium 4 processor, with 2GB RAM.

Install Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 7 for Beginners