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Thread ID: 134226	2013-06-12 08:23:00	Dual-Booting Windows 8 and Ubunto 13.04	har (16834)	Press F1

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1345516	2013-06-12 08:23:00	How would do I do this while keeping the Windows 8 data?	har (16834)
1345517	2013-06-12 09:06:00	That isn't too hard to do. However, it would help to see your partitions. Can you open up the windows 8 disk partitioner, take a screenshot, and post it here? Cheers.	Nick G (16709)
1345518	2013-06-12 09:47:00	Installing Ubuntu will not distroy your W8 data unless you do something odd. If all you want to do is try out Ubuntu, why not try a virtual machine? Download VirtualBox and install Ubuntu into that - much safer if you are not sure what you are doing.	johnd (85)
1345519	2013-06-13 06:30:00	5051 This is disk managment	har (16834)
1345520	2013-06-13 22:51:00	First if you can make a backup image of your drive on an external drive. Then right click the C: drive and shrink the volume to make space for linux. Then create a linux install cd or usb, boot from it and install to the unpartitioned space. Most distros will install grub and create a boot menu letting you choose which to boot. Reversing the process is a little trickier but not too bad, running easy bcd from windows and using it to restore the boot files to C: is one way. Of course you can always restore the image you created...	dugimodo (138)
1345521	2013-06-13 23:29:00	Pretty much as Dugimodo said, I'd change a couple of things though. Shrink your C drive as much as you want, maybe make it 100gbs smaller? Then, make three partitions, leave them all unformatted (doesn't matter if you do format them, but you don't need to). If you did shrink C by 100gbs, this is what I'd do. Make a 30gb partition Make a 4gb partition Make a 66gb partition. Make your live cd/usb, boot into it, and install Ubuntu. When installing: Select the 'something else' installation option Format the 30gb partition as EXT4 and give it the mount point / Format the 66gbs partition as EXT4, and give it the mount point /home Use the 4gbs partition as SWAP. (this might be a option under the 'format as', or 'mount point' option (note the 'mount point' may actually be 'use as', I can't remember exactly :) Finally, install Grub to /dev/sda By making a / and a /home partition, you're splitting your data and your programs. Your files will go on the /home, your programs on the / partition. Which means its possible to reinstall Ubuntu without losing any files. Sorted :) Quick question, will you be using the 64bit version of Ubuntu? I don't believe the 32 bit version works with secure boot.	Nick G (16709)
1345522	2013-06-15 03:59:00	Pretty much as Dugimodo said, I'd change a couple of things though. Shrink your C drive as much as you want, maybe make it 100gbs smaller? Then, make three partitions, leave them all unformatted (doesn't matter if you do format them, but you don't need to). If you did shrink C by 100gbs, this is what I'd do. Make a 30gb partition Make a 4gb partition Make a 66gb partition. Make your live cd/usb, boot into it, and install Ubuntu. When installing: Select the 'something else' installation option Format the 30gb partition as EXT4 and give it the mount point / Format the 66gbs partition as EXT4, and give it the mount point /home Use the 4gbs partition as SWAP. (this might be a option under the 'format as', or 'mount point' option (note the 'mount point' may actually be 'use as', I can't remember exactly :) Finally, install Grub to /dev/sda By making a / and a /home partition, you're splitting your data and your programs. Your files will go on the /home, your programs on the / partition. Which means its possible to reinstall Ubuntu without losing any files. Sorted :) Quick question, will you be using the 64bit version of Ubuntu? I don't believe the 32 bit version works with secure boot. 64-bit. Thanks a lot everyone.	har (16834)
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