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[mcol]

Hi Sweetie!!!!! Aren't you all Christmassy in your avatar!!!!

Have a wonderful Holiday!!!!!

You too! Have a wonderful Christmas and stop in here more often!

Put much more clearly than I managed!

I appreciate both your help! Thanks!

 

[mcol]

On the physical hard drive, sure. But not on the C:\ partition. If the physical hard drive is not partitioned, you should create a partition and install it to that partition. Windows will assign a drive letter to the new partition.

You can create a partition in Disk Management. Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. From here you can create another partition on your hard drive. Ubuntu shouldn't need more than 20-50 gigs of space depending on what you want to do with it. Once the partition is created it will show up as D: or E: or F:, etc. That's where you will want to install Ubuntu.

Okay thanks! What I'm trying to do is install this on the XP machine since XP will stop being supported
by Microsoft in April. New Win7 machine will replace this one next week and this one will be the spare.
I restored it to factory settings a few days ago (have since updated stuff) so nothing is partitioned.

 

[roonies]

looks more like Stone's feet to me....

well this is what 2 feet of snow looks like....MCOL .is that what ya got ??
View attachment 285625???

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

looks more like Stone's feet to me....

L O L that was the first thing I thought of also

 

[roonies]

it was "do you want a knuckle sandwich" in our house!!

Oh, someone's cruisin' for a brusin!

 

[Sambuca]

looks more like Stone's feet to me....

dang, we all missed that!

 

[roonies]

sorry, but I sure am glad I have a mac!....sheesh....I would be lost!!

On the physical hard drive, sure. But not on the C:\ partition. If the physical hard drive is not partitioned, you should create a partition and install it to that partition. Windows will assign a drive letter to the new partition.

You can create a partition in Disk Management. Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. From here you can create another partition on your hard drive. Ubuntu shouldn't need more than 20-50 gigs of space depending on what you want to do with it. Once the partition is created it will show up as D: or E: or F:, etc. That's where you will want to install Ubuntu.

 

[mcol]

sorry, but I sure am glad I have a mac!....sheesh....I would be lost!!

I've learned more about these windows computers in the past week then I've learned in years,
and it's because I've been a little gutsy with this one as there is another new one waiting for me to
open it.

 

[roonies]

brilliant minds think alike!!

L O L that was the first thing I thought of also

 

[mcol]

If this works, then I'll pick their minds next month about a sound problem
with my son's laptop - hehe.

 

[FearTX]

sorry, but I sure am glad I have a mac!....sheesh....I would be lost!!

You can install Ubuntu on your Mac! You know you want to, it is quiet hipster and all the cool kids are doing so.

I did it just to see if my wifes machine can handle it, she hates it but now I have an Ubuntu install on all the machines in the house.

Ima nerd.

 

[thesandman]

steep faster juices, steep faster!

 

[Sambuca]

i'll byte. what the heck is an Ibuntu???

Zulu scritp?

 

[mcol]

i'll byte. what the heck is an Ibuntu???

Zulu scritp?

Linux
Another type of non-windows operating system. Free.

 

[mcol]

If I'm wrong I KNOW THEY'LL CORRECT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

 

[roonies]

Ok...I like to think I'm pretty much up on all things tech, but what is Ubuntu??? Never heard of it.

You can install Ubuntu on your Mac! You know you want to, it is quiet hipster and all the cool kids are doing so.

I did it just to see if my wifes machine can handle it, she hates it but now I have an Ubuntu install on all the machines in the house.

Ima nerd.

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

i'll byte. what the heck is an Ibuntu???

Zulu scritp?

Ubuntu (/ʊˈbʊntuː/ uu-BUUN-too)[7][8] is a Debian-based Linux operating system, with Unity as its default desktop environment. It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, "human-ness"), which often is translated as "humanity towards others" or "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".[9]

According to some metrics, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution

Believe it or not, MCOL was correct

 

[roonies]

Well I've heard great things about Linux but that's as far as my knowledge goes. I hate to mess with this OS because it's pretty new and synched with my ipad. Think I'll not rock the boat here......sounds interesting though.

Ubuntu (/ʊˈbʊntuː/ uu-BUUN-too)[7][8] is a Debian-based Linux operating system, with Unity as its default desktop environment. It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, "human-ness"), which often is translated as "humanity towards others" or "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".[9]

According to some metrics, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution

 

[Sambuca]

Ubuntu (/ʊˈbʊntuː/ uu-BUUN-too)[7][8] is a Debian-based Linux operating system, with Unity as its default desktop environment. It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, "human-ness"), which often is translated as "humanity towards others" or "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".[9]

According to some metrics, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution

Believe it or not, MCOL was correct

i was close!

 

[Joie]

i'll byte. what the heck is an Ibuntu???

Zulu scritp?

what is SCRITP ????????????