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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing Ubuntu To Single User Account? Post 302104301 by migigicoko on Wednesday 24th of January 2007 03:17:44 PM
Old 01-24-2007
Well, I'm sorry for not better clarifying my problem. I'm currently sick of Windows OS, and I've really wanted to try Ubuntu, a type of Unix OS, for a while. It really appeals to me, and I would just reboot the computer and install it, but this is a family computer. I do not have any other computers, and buying one is out of the question right now. After doing more research to my own question, I've discovered a way to do it, at least somewhat. I was wondering if this would work...

-Create a new partition and giving it a decent amount of space using fdisk,exe on the Windows start-up floppy.
-Install Ubuntu into the partition.

Now, I've found a program called GRUB which has a nice tutorial for multibooting like this, you can see it here. Once I have the OS installed and partitioned, then how do I separately boot up Ubuntu at start-up as opposed to Windows? Do I need to make any other partitions for Windows/Ubuntu?

EDIT: I've also just stumbled across some info in a LiveDisk. Does this disk just load up the OS when I put it in, and just run off that, like it's own contained OS? Does it keep hold of files, how exactly does it work?
Last edited by migigicoko; 01-24-2007 at 04:24 PM..
 

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NAME

       import-bug-from-debian - Import bugs from Debian's BTS, and file them against Ubuntu in LP.

SYNOPSIS

       import-bug-from-debian [options] bug...
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DESCRIPTION

       import-bug-from-debian  clones  bugs  from Debian's BTS into Launchpad. Each bug listed on the command line has its initial report re-filed
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