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Installing Ubuntu on a Desktop running Vista Home Premium

Asked by Win Finkley

My desktop uses Vista home premium.I recently downloaded ubuntu and i want to know how i can install it on my desktop.The hard disc is partitioned in 2 parts(C & D).The operating system is on C while D is 90% empty.There is also an external usb hard disc with plenty of memory aveliable(67gb).I would like to know ,in which part is reccomended to place the ubuntu i recently dowloaded.Ubuntu is not something familiar to me,and i would like to know step by step the way to istall it.i also tried once to place it in the same drive where the vista system is,but after a few days,it crashed ......format

thank u in advance

Pouneridis

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Guillermo Belli (glock24) said : 		#1

Provide us with some information regarding your hardware (model, chipset, video card, etc) so we can help you better.
At what point does the installation lock up?

You can take a look at these:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootParameters
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

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W. Prins (wprins) said : 		#2

Also please include how much memory your system has. (I'm guessing that's probably not an issue given that you're running Vista, however the LiveCD installer does have increased memory requirements due to booting the entire OS from CD into RAM, hence why I want to know.)

Also, did you perform the CD verification/check to ensure the CD is not corrupted, and/or did you do the memory test, to ensure you do not have an obscure memory error somewhere?

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Win Finkley (wfinkl1957) said : 		#3

ByteJuggler,

Thanks for the response I did do a memory check and everything check out okay. I also did a CD verification and did not get any errors. Memory (RAM 2494 MB). My computer locks up after the burnt orange colored screen appears. I went back to running Vista Home Basic by running a full system restore. Thank you again in advance.

Win Finkley

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W. Prins (wprins) said : 		#4

Would you still like us to help troubleshoot your issues? If so you still should specify your exact hardware as requested in another post, if possible. An easy way to do that would be to boot up with the Ubuntu LiveCD, press alt-f2, and then enter the following in the command box (or better yet, copy and paste it) :

gksudo lspci >/tmp/hw.txt; gedit /tmp/hw.txt

Press enter (or click Run), and most of the relevant hardware info should open up in a text editor, from where you can post it here.

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