Need help installing linux (Ubuntu) for dual boot

Zarok Aleon · Jul 14, 2014

So I downloaded Ubuntu onto its own partition and want to dual boot from it. With windows 7.
My issue is that while I have all of the files on the hardrive I am not sure how to start the installation. I have no disk. because it was downloaded.

Thanks for takign the time to answer! -Z

ksham · Jul 14, 2014

Can you burn the ISO to a CD, or DVD, or flash drive? After that, just boot into it. The installer will guide you through the rest.

Zarok Aleon · Jul 14, 2014

ok so i tried putting it onto a cd and it didnt work. also i am not sure how to boot off of one of those.

I am not sure which is the ISO file, and I also have tried burning things that say like disk image but it says it wont burn cause its not valid

ksham · Jul 14, 2014

Where did you download your Ubuntu OS? It should download as a single ISO file.

And once you burn the ISO into a CD, pop it into the optical drive and reboot. Enter the BIOS and set the default boot drive to your optical drive. Then exit the BIOS and that should boot using your Ubuntu CD.

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

well, the file i downloaded was like 22GB it was alot of files. I cant put that all on a disc. the only iso file is an iso archive. I downloaded it from the Ubuntu site

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

You mean this one?. It's only 30 MB. The installer will download packages as it needs them from the Internet so I recommend having an Ethernet connection.

It shouldn't be 22GB unless you're downloading a bunch of files. Ubuntu only takes up a few GB of storage space after install.

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

i downlaoded this one http://www.ubuntu.com/download the desktop version on the link. then i unzipped the files

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

Even that is only a 950MB ISO file. A bit big for a CD so you'll have to use a DVD or a flash drive. No where near 22GB though. Also, don't extract the ISO. Burn it as is. If you got the mini version that I posted up, you can burn it to a CD.

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

This is my hardrive and all the files on it. The one that says "massive folder form drive c" contains a iso archive that is like 23,456,880KB and is causing the big chunk of space. I put it there to leave space on my SSD. Now I am not sure what to do but that is what is on my hardrive. without that file it is probably about the size you said.

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

Burn the ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64 ISO into a DVD or flash drive. Don't extract it to your hard drive. Burn that one iso file as is to a DVD or flash drive. Then restart your computer and boot into the DVD or flash drive.

Do you have a disk burning software?

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

uh. i dunno... there are all these things people never tell you to get when you build a computer. will vlc do it? or anything that came with windows. i should have one somewhere though.

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

Try ImgBurn.

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

I have the disk burned now I am attempting to get into my BIOS and then fiddle with the boot order

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

I am booting and getting into the Bios, but when i choose to launch from the dvd drive it just boots into windows no matter what

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

What happens when you tell it to boot into the DVD drive? Usually, upon POST, it should ask if you want to boot from a CD/DVD by hitting a key. You can also try boot menu upon POST. It's one of the F keys on your keyboard. To be sure you are not booting from the hard drive, you can unhook your hard drive so it cannot boot using it.

If all went well, then perhaps you didn't burn the image properly. Can you show me the contents of the CD or DVD?

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

I misunderstood something earlier. i found a webpage, and figured out i needed to unpack the zip folder onto the disk and then boot. i was trying to boot to a disk with just that iso file. i am extracting now and i will try again. i get into bios and select to boot to that drive but then it boots to windows, probably because nothing was in that but that iso archive. now i am just getting ready for work while winzip does its thing. hopefully i can get ubuntu started installing while im off at work

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

alright so i have gotten the disk. and now i am trying to boot. however when i try to boot from the disk it goes straight o windows, i disabled windows boot, and it tells me to insert the media or select proper boot device. but its not doing anything.

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

What option did you pick when you used ImgBurn to write the ISO to the CD? Something like: "Write image file to disc"? And then you selected the ISO file? Got a screenshot of the contents of the CD?

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

I didnt use image burn i just did it idk what with. but this is what the disk looks like.

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

That ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64 file should NOT be in there, but I don't think it matters. Take a quick read at this.

Zarok Aleon · Jul 15, 2014

yea im trying but like i said the disk isnt booting i am goign to try a flash drive

ksham · Jul 15, 2014

I think this may help: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net

I probably should've suggested it sooner but it skipped my mind. I am so sorry.

Zarok Aleon · Jul 16, 2014

usb drive worked. i have it installing now. thank you so much for you help

Zarok Aleon · Jul 16, 2014

Now i am stuck with trying to partition drives, but that is a thread for another day.

techie_dude · Aug 12, 2014

here you go..it has been explained for external hard disk,but the partition part is same for all linux and any drive(internal or external) give to a through read ,you will have your doubts cleared
http://engg-haven.blogspot.in/2014/08/install-ubuntu-bodhi-linux-on-external.html

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