can i have two operating systems on one computer

 Hello i was wondering if could put ubuntu on my computer and also have xp  on it at the same tieme without deleting xp and the files  on it i seen somebody had windows 98 and xp on there computer and i seen ubuntu and i just thought it would be something fun to play around with


this was an edit sence the first person said yes can i uninstall this in  add and remove if i  don't want it in xp

yes.

Your not installing it xp.  What you can do is spilt the drive partiton an tell it to install to that, which in turn creats a dual boot.

Hello i was wondering if could put ubuntu on my computer and also have xp  on it at the same tieme without deleting xp and the files  on it i seen somebody had windows 98 and xp on there computer and i seen ubuntu and i just thought it would be something fun to play around with


this was an edit sence the first person said yes can i uninstall this in if i  don't want it in xp

Yes. There is a program called Wubi that does just that, but NO partitioning at all, and it resides in a folder called  "ubuntu" on your hard drive. You get to keep XP, and if you don't want Ubuntu anymore you can uninstall it via add/remove programs. But only if you install it with Wubi. Try it out

http//wubi-installer.org

if you want to do it the old fashioned way and partition your drive, there are partition tools such as

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,72826-order,3-page,1/description.html
http://gparted.sourceforge.net

Then install Ubuntu on your newly-made partition

BE CAREFUL WITH PARTITIONING, HAVE A BACKUP!!!

--Thomas

I'm not that linux fluent, sorry but I have messed with dual booting an what not

sounds simple enough can somebody give me step by step advise on how to use the wubi tool to download ububtu
i only have 4 gbs left it's a 20 are 18.6 hard drive is that enough

sounds simple enough can somebody give me step by step advise on how to use the wubi tool to download ububtu
i only have 4 gb is that enough

What is the total size of your hard drive? You need at least 15% free for windows to function correctly.

its about 20 gbs according too him, I would get a fourty or eighty so that both have room to work, though linux dont need a whole lot

What is the total size of your hard drive? You need at least 15% free for windows to function correctly.

I have my Windows on 3 GB free space

sounds simple enough can somebody give me step by step advise on how to use the wubi tool to download ububtu
i only have 4 gbs left it's a 20 are 18.6 hard drive is that enough

You might want to clear your temp files on Windows if you have only 4 GB free space, because you will only have 3.5 GB for Ubuntu (you need 5 GB space to run Wubi, says the official site)

When you clear the space, I will run it with you, step by step

Yes. There is a program called Wubi that does just that, but NO partitioning at all, and it resides in a folder called  "ubuntu" on your hard drive. You get to keep XP, and if you don't want Ubuntu anymore you can uninstall it via add/remove programs. But only if you install it with Wubi. Try it out

http//wubi-installer.org

if you want to do it the old fashioned way and partition your drive, there are partition tools such as

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,72826-order,3-page,1/description.html
http://gparted.sourceforge.net

Then install Ubuntu on your newly-made partition

BE CAREFUL WITH PARTITIONING, HAVE A BACKUP!!!

--Thomas

Hi i am new to this and I am very interested in doing this but the wubu link will not work at my end plus will it work with vista as I do not fancy the partition route it is o.e.m vista with no backups

Hello I  really can't free up that much space i already deletied of all the programs i didn't want and ran a compress disk drive to save space in c properties and i did a disk cleanup and have only 4.45 of free space most of my space about ten gbs worth are pictures which i can't get rid of because i don't have a cd burner

how safe or online storage sights like google and amazon to put my pictures on

i have an older computer 500mhz would it work on that

you can just use a virtual software such as vmware or virtualbox to install your OS.

Yes. There is a program called Wubi that does just that, but NO partitioning at all, and it resides in a folder called  "ubuntu" on your hard drive. You get to keep XP, and if you don't want Ubuntu anymore you can uninstall it via add/remove programs. But only if you install it with Wubi. Try it out

http//wubi-installer.org

if you want to do it the old fashioned way and partition your drive, there are partition tools such as

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,72826-order,3-page,1/description.html
http://gparted.sourceforge.net

Then install Ubuntu on your newly-made partition

BE CAREFUL WITH PARTITIONING, HAVE A BACKUP!!!

--Thomas

you dont need nothing to do it
heres how you do it
boot into windows
pop the cd in
and choose to install insde windows
you can select at boot time with no partitioning

Buy a pocket computer! (Video below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNo6pn-dnSQ

Buy a pocket computer! (Video below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNo6pn-dnSQ

unhelpful!
if you dont have anything useful to say
dont post
anyway i still sugjest installing inside windowz

you dont need nothing to do it
heres how you do it
boot into windows
pop the cd in
and choose to install insde windows
you can select at boot time with no partitioning

I never got that option in Ubuntu 9.0.4 jaunty jackalope...

Hello I  really can't free up that much space i already deletied of all the programs i didn't want and ran a compress disk drive to save space in c properties and i did a disk cleanup and have only 4.45 of free space most of my space about ten gbs worth are pictures which i can't get rid of because i don't have a cd burner

how safe or online storage sights like google and amazon to put my pictures on

i have an older computer 500mhz would it work on that

I would just put the pics on a flash drive, and keep the flash drive in a safe place.  You can also back them up for free with Windows Live Sky Drive or the home version of Mozy.

Buy a pocket computer! (Video below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNo6pn-dnSQ

I think he wants to do this on his current PC...

if you dont have anything useful to say
dont post

That's really rich, coming from you! If you followed that rule, your postcount would be around 5.

hi I got ubunto through wubi and so far no problems but I have 95.2 free h.d 2gb mem and a celeron e1200

That's really rich, coming from you! If you followed that rule, your postcount would be around 5.

hehe yeah. well said Salmon Trout

Hi i am new to this and I am very interested in doing this but the wubu link will not work at my end plus will it work with vista as I do not fancy the partition route it is o.e.m vista with no backups

please start your own thread as some of the things could be differnt from his. 

hello i got a cd burner i think i'm going try to burn ubuntu  to a cd and try it on one of my older computers hardrives and use it on my computer how do i load this to a wiped out hardrive is it like xp are 95

any cd burner software you would recommend trying

no, not at all.  It will load the os an allow you to use it as long as the disk is there.  Thing is that you have too tell it to install to the drive.  Never messed with it though, probably want to ask in the linux thread.