If I don't partition my drive before installing and I choose to install alongside Windows 10, how much space will Ubuntu automatically take?  If I do create a partition, how do I also create a swap partition for it?  Will it automatically create a swap partition?
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For a given hardware configuration, how do I find out if Ubuntu will run on it? What considerations should I take into account when choosing an Ubuntu version and  such as:    with a lighter desktop than the usual Gnome and Unity  with the even lighter LXDE desktop   Obviously Ubuntu does not run on some processor architectures. So how do I go about choosing the right version and derivate. How can I find out the minmal system requirements?
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I'm planing to install ubuntu 12.10 in a dell inspiron 17 laptop as the unique operating system.  I would like to know how to partition the drive in  order to have my data separate from the operating system. is it better to do it in the installation or I could go with the default and then use gparted to do the job?  where can I find some tutorials on this?  I'm finding lots of things with dual boot, but I'm not interested on that.
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I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on 1TB HDD and have installed lots of packages and softwares. Now i've bought an 128GB SSD, I have few questions on how to partition SSD and HDD and how to move my current installation to SSD.  I'm thinking to have / and /home on SSD, and store other files on HDD, so how can i partition SSD+HDD to have:   / and /home on SSD have /home/music, /home/videos, /home/downloads, /home/pictures on HDD I have no idea about swap partition (should it be on SSD or HDD, actually its empty most of the time now), my laptop has 16 GBs of RAM   I'm planning to have fresh install of 14.04 on SSD (and i think i have to), so what is the best way to move currently installed packages to new installation ? i'm planning to use Aptik for that, is there a better solution ?  Is preload any good and gives performance boost when using SSD (i have 16 GBs of RAM)
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How would I go about dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu, the windows drive is on an ssd as my c drive and my s drive is a hdd that I want to use for Linux. I have no idea what I need to download it or anything.
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I need to install Ubuntu instead of Windows 7. Can you tell me the steps to do it? I don't want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. Any precautions needed before installing Ubuntu? How do I install Ubuntu 11.10 without losing the current data in my laptop?
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How can I install Ubuntu on Windows 10 as dual boot? I have a DVD with Ubuntu and when I tried to install Ubuntu I had a warning that the hard disk will be erased. How can I install Ubuntu and keep my Windows 10? Thanks
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I have 4GB of RAM and I want to install Ubuntu. Do I need a to have a swap partition? Because my computer has 4GB RAM, I do not think it is necessary to have a swap partition. If I do need to have a swap partition, should it be a 4GB or an 8GB partition?
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I'm very new with Ubuntu and generally with linux. I saw ubuntu and it seems like this OS is really good and stable, and so I decided to install it alongside my windows 7 OS.  I have a few problems with the installation. Here is what I did:   I downloaded the 64bit version from Ubuntu official website, and burned it on a dvd. I set the boot sequence to first load from my CD-Rom. Ubuntu installation started, and I chose "Install Ubuntu" in the menu. (where there is also a "Try Ubuntu" option) I clicked forward until I got into the installation type screen    As you can see, the installation wont show my actual details about my hard drive! I have 1 hard drive with 750 GB - 80 GB - My main drive with windows 7 OS 600GB - All of my stuff 20GB Free space that I saved for Ubuntu But the installation wont show that!
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I’m trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 alongside with Windows 7. My HDD supports only 4 partitions. Three of the partitions are taken up by windows. The fourth one is labelled as free space.   Now, how do I make root, swap and home partitions? Should I format my free space as primary with EXT4 first (if so, what should be the mount point?) and then create logical partitions for root/Home/swap? How do I go about this?  Edit: I tried to use the automatic installation option for dual boot. However I got the error ubi partman exit code 141. Probably because it tried to create two separate partitions for root and swap.   $ sudo parted -l Model: ATA ST1000DM003-1CH1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags:   Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags  1      1049kB  106MB  105MB  primary  ntfs         boot  2      106MB   277GB  277GB  primary  ntfs  3      277GB   903GB  627GB  primary  ntfs
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I have 320 GB hard drive which is partitioned as follows:   / is 16 GB, and is reiserfs /home is 300 GB, and is reiserfs swap is 4 GB   Now I want to install Windows and have a dual-boot system, but I don't have a free partition. I have more than enough free space on the /home partition, though, and I've heard about tools like resize_reiserfs, so my question is, can I shrink that partition to 280 GB and create a new 20 GB partition on which to install Windows, and what is the best way to do it?
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I am going to be buying a second hard drive for my desktop here pretty soon, because my current hard drive is a piece of junk running windows 7. What I want to know is how to install Ubuntu on the second drive. I am looking for a non complicated answer as I am not familiar with the Ubuntu lingo. I am so sick of Windows.. I used Ubuntu before but it didn't work properly. When I installed it, it said I didn't have enough space... Even though I had 600GB to use. Anyway if anyone can help me out it would be much appreciated. Thanks
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I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit alongside Windows 8, so I created some free space in Windows 8.  When I try to install Ubuntu using a Live USB, the free space created is not visible and the partitions shown are completely different.  But when I click the option "Try Ubuntu", I am able to use my Windows partitions.
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I am a newbie in linux. I wanted to install ubuntu to my desktop. I currently have two partitions, Windows 8 in installed on one, and i have some important files in another partition. While installing ubuntu, if I chose "Replace Windows 8 with Ubuntu", do I lose the other partition too?   And are there other ways to leave the other partition as it is, and install ubuntu in the partition  where windows was installed.
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I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my pre-installed windows 7 pc and I want a dual boot. I have no empty partition on my hard disk drive. I don't want to re-install windows 7 and don't want to install ubuntu on c drive. I want to install on a different partition but I want to resize it. How should I do it? Please answer in steps. Also suggest the amount of space I should allocte to ubuntu 13.10.
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I have 2 partitions (Windows and Ubuntu 13.04) and I am asked which one to boot each time I turn on my computer.  I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 to the entire disk.  I do not mind if all previous Ubuntu/Win data are lost.  How can I do that?
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I'm new to Ubuntu... I went to the downloads page and downloaded the Windows Installer as I am hoping initially to have a dual boot on my currently Win 7 PC (I would consider preserving my Win7 install as a VM under Ubuntu instead - advice?)  It's asking me to choose an "Installation size" but there's no explanation as to what the significance of this is. Is this a disc partition?  Can I increase it easily later if it's too small?  I came here to ask these questions and now I see a bunch of threads about 'WUBI' and possible downsides of installing Ubuntu this way. Is the Windows Installer I just downloaded going to give me WUBI?
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I am trying to install a fresh version of Ubuntu in my computer without touching the windows 10 dual boot! In the Installation Type, the first option seems exactly what i wanted to do.  My question is, is this feature is safe to use? because i don't want to lose any windows files and other NTFS partitions on the hard-disk. Please eliminate my confusion. Note as that i dont need any files or media which are in the ubuntu partition, Thanks.