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  • Alright, guys. I have had many requests for this, so

  • in this video, I'm going to show you how to dual boot your

  • computer. Although I am going to try to make at as

  • easy to follow of a process as possible,

  • please do not attempt this unless you know exactly

  • what you are doing because you could really screw up your

  • computer. The purpose of dual booting is to put more than one

  • operating system on a single computer.

  • For instance, if you like Windows and you like Linux,

  • but you do not have two separate computers to put them on and

  • you do not want to mess with the limitations of Virtual PC's,

  • then you could dual boot both of the

  • operating systems and be able to put both of them

  • on a computer and run them independently

  • without that many conflicts. There is a lot to go over

  • in this video. Let us go ahead and get started.

  • If you are running a Windows environment and you want to install

  • Ubuntu linux as a dual boot, then there is an

  • easy way to do that if you go to wubi-installer.org.

  • Wubi is an application that

  • installs Ubuntu as a program within

  • Windows so that you can add and remove it just

  • like any other program. Once you

  • run the setup for that, you can choose the installation

  • size, the desktop environment, and then put in a

  • password and click "install" and it is going to download the

  • image, create a partition for it, and set up dual

  • booting on your computer. So when you click "Finish"

  • to reboot your computer, you will see a screen like

  • this whenever it boots back up so you can choose either

  • Windows to boot to, or Ubuntu.

  • I just chose Ubuntu and it is going to finish the

  • Ubuntu installation setup.

  • And it is going to boot to it

  • as if it were installed alone on this computer.

  • The good thing about using it through Wubi is

  • that if you decide in the future you want

  • to get rid of Ubuntu and get everything back to

  • normal, just go into Windows and go to Add/Remove

  • programs, choose Ubuntu and you can uninstall it

  • and it will get rid of everything for you.

  • The next thing that you want

  • to download is a program called "Iso Recorder".

  • This step is for if you just want to partition

  • your hard drive off. "ISO Recorder" is

  • a free application that allows you to

  • burn ISO files to a cd

  • rather easily. If you don't have Windows,

  • I think this is Windows only, you can use

  • any other type of burning software like NERO

  • or something like that. Just run the setup

  • applicaiton and install ISO

  • Recorder. Whenever you are through, close out of all the

  • folders and go back to Google and do a search for

  • GParted. Now GParted is a linux

  • distrobution that handles partitions,

  • editing them and formatting

  • them and creating them. You just want

  • to download the ISO image for the Live

  • CD of GParted to your computer. And

  • since you have ISO recorder installed, just put in

  • a blank CD, right click on GParted, and

  • select "Copy To Image", and it is going to bring

  • up a dialog box that allows you to burn

  • it to a blank cd. Whenever it is through burning

  • to the CD, just click "Finish" and reboot your

  • computer. You will notice on the splash screen of your

  • computer, it tells you a button to press to enter setup, mine was DEL,

  • but yours may be different. What you want to do is get into

  • setup, and find where it lists

  • the order of the boot devices, and make sure you

  • have CDROM listed first and Hard Disk listed

  • second. Your setup may not look like mine, so just

  • mess around with it until you find those options

  • and then save the changes and reboot your computer.

  • Now, whenver it reboots, it should

  • boot to the GParted CD that is

  • in your CD drive. I am just going to go with the default

  • settings for this. If yours does not work, you may

  • want to change up the settings, but this

  • gives you the options for the keyboard layout, and then

  • the language you prefer, and then if you want to

  • start up GParted automatically.

  • This is what GParted looks like. It goes

  • through and tells you the different partitions on your

  • computer.If you want to resize one, just select

  • the partition you want to resize and drag the

  • slider bar over until you get to the

  • size of Gigabytes that you want for the new

  • partition and then click "resize".

  • Then select that new partition that you just created

  • and click "New" at the top, the "New" button,

  • and you can choose how you want to format it.

  • Whether it be NTFS or FAT32. Then just

  • click "Apply" and sit back and wait

  • because it will take a couple of hours for this to finish.

  • When it is through, exit out of it and reboot your computer

  • and you want to take out the GParted CD

  • and put in the CD of the Operating

  • System that you want to install.

  • The main thing that you want to watch for is

  • whenever it asks you what partition to put it on, be

  • sure to select the partition you created,

  • the second partition, because if not, it is going

  • to install it on your main partition and wipe out everything

  • that is on your computer and you don't want to do that.

  • If you get a little carried away with installing stuff on your

  • computer, you might screw up your boot menu and

  • how your system boots. In case that happens,

  • there is a pretty cool program that I have found

  • to organize all of that, and it is called GAG.

  • So if you open up a web browser, and do

  • a Google search for

  • "gag boot menu", the first result is going

  • to take you to the GAG Graphical Boot Manager

  • that you can download. And this just organizes

  • everything to make your boot up

  • process a little bit simpler. Just download

  • it and extract all the files form the zip

  • archive, and you will find an ISO

  • CD somewhere in there. It is called

  • CDROM.ISO. And using ISO

  • Recorder, you can burn it to a blank CD

  • and whenever you reboot you computer, it is going to boot up

  • and you want to hit "4" to install, choose your keyboard

  • layout, and then choose your language.

  • Then you want to hit "S" to enter setup and then hit "H"

  • to save it to the hard drive. Then hit "A"

  • to add a new Operating System. I am going to

  • choose "B" and this is my Windows XP

  • partition, so I am going to type that in. You can even

  • put a password in, if you want, and then change the

  • icon for it. So now I am going to hit "A" again and choose "C"

  • this time. This is my Windows Vista partition.

  • So I am going to put that in and I am not going to put a password

  • and then hit "C" for the icon. Now hit

  • "H" again to save everything to your hard drive

  • And when you boot your computer back up,

  • you are going to see a menu that looks like this

  • and you can choose what you want to boot to.

  • If you ever wanted to uninstall it, just

  • boot back up to the GAG CD and choose "5" to

  • uninstall it and when you reboot your computer,

  • it should be back to the way it was before

  • you installed the program. So that is a good way

  • to organize your boot process

  • and a good way to clear it up if you end up not

  • liking it. So, again, be careful with this if you

  • do it, because you could seriously screw stuff

  • up on your computer. If you have anymore tips, feel free to leave those

  • below, or check out the new tinkernut.com forum.

  • Just go to tinkernut.com/forum

  • and leave any tips you may have there.

  • Alright, that is it for this tutorial, for more go to Tinkernut.com

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