How To Install Ubuntu On Windows 8?

Contents

Step 1 – Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB stick.
Step 2 – Make a backup of your current Windows setup.
Step 3 – Make room on your hard-drive for Ubuntu.
Step 4 – Turn OFF Fast Boot.
Step 5 – UEFI BIOS Settings to Enable boot from USB.
Step 6 – Installing Ubuntu.
Step 7 – Getting Dual Boot Windows 8.x and Ubuntu to work.

How do I install Ubuntu on my PC?

Download Ubuntu. For you first need to download a Ubuntu .ISO CD image file.
Check if Your Computer will Boot from USB. The only thing slightly complicated about installing Ubuntu might be getting your computer to boot from the USB.
3. Make BIOS Changes.
Try Ubuntu Before you Install It.
Install Ubuntu.

How do I install Ubuntu on Windows 10?

How to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 [dual-boot]

Download Ubuntu ISO image file.
Create a bootable USB drive to write Ubuntu image file to USB.
Shrink the Windows 10 partition to create space for Ubuntu.
Run the Ubuntu live environment and install it.

How do I install Ubuntu on my Windows 8.1 HP laptop?

Before you start it might be worth reading the latest review of Ubuntu 14.04 to make sure dual booting with Windows 8.1 is something you want to do.

Back up Windows.
Create a bootable Ubuntu USB drive.
Shrink your Windows partition.
Turn off fast boot.
Turn off secure boot.
Install Ubuntu.
Boot Repair.
Fix the boot loader.

How do I uninstall Ubuntu and install Windows?

Boot a live CD/DVD/USB with Ubuntu.
Choose “Try Ubuntu”
Download and install OS-Uninstaller.
Start the software and select what operating system you want to uninstall.
Apply.
When all is over, reboot your computer, and voila, only Windows is on your computer or of course no OS!

How do I install Ubuntu desktop?

How to Install a Desktop on an Ubuntu Server

Log into the server.
Type the command “sudo apt-get update” to update the list of software packages available.
Type the command “sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop” to install the Gnome desktop.
Type the command “sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop” to install the XFCE desktop.

Can I install Ubuntu from Windows?

If you want to use Linux, but still want to leave Windows installed on your computer, you can install Ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration. Just place the Ubuntu installer on a USB drive, CD, or DVD using the same method as above. Go through the install process and select the option to install Ubuntu alongside Windows.

How do I enable Ubuntu on Windows 10?

How to install Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10

Open Settings.
Click on Update & security.
Click on For Developers.
Under “Use developer features”, select the Developer mode option to setup the environment to install Bash.
On the message box, click Yes to turn on developer mode.

How do I use Windows 10 and Ubuntu together?

Let’s see the steps of installing Ubuntu along side Windows 10.

Step 1: Make a backup [optional]
Step 2: Create a live USB/disk of Ubuntu.
Step 3: Make a partition where Ubuntu will be installed.
Step 4: Disable fast startup in Windows [optional]
Step 5: Disable secureboot in Windows 10 and 8.1.

Can I install Ubuntu without CD or USB?

You can use UNetbootin to install Ubuntu 15.04 from Windows 7 into a dual boot system without the use of a cd/dvd or a USB drive.

How do I install Ubuntu on my HP laptop?

Get Linux to install

Download and install the latest BIOS from Windows.
Create a UEFI compatible bootable USB key with your favourite Linux image.
Press F10 to get into the BIOS menu at boot and disable the secure boot feature.
Press F9 at boot to get into the boot medium list.

How do I open dual boot on my HP laptop?

Now that you have a Windows 10 installation USB. Turn on your laptop/PC and immediately keep pressing Escape (For HP laptops) (other should try F2, F8, delete etc.) until the BIOS opens. Here in BIOS you set the Windows 10 USB drive in UEFI/legacy mode to boot first from and press F10 to save settings.

How do I install Ubuntu beside windows?

The steps for booting Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 are as follows:

Take a backup of your system.
Create space on your hard drive by Shrinking Windows.
Create a bootable Linux USB drive / Create a bootable Linux DVD.
Boot into a live version of Ubuntu.
Run the installer.
Choose your language.

How do I start Ubuntu desktop?

How to run Graphical Ubuntu Linux from Bash Shell in Windows 10

Step 2: Open Display Settings → Select ‘one large window’ and leave other settings as default → Finish the configuration.
Step 3: Press ‘Start button’ and Search for ‘Bash’ or simply open Command Prompt and type ‘bash’ command.
Step 4: Install ubuntu-desktop, unity, and ccsm.

What is the difference between Ubuntu server and desktop?

Copied as-is from Ubuntu docs: The first difference is in the CD contents. Before 12.04, Ubuntu server installs a server-optimized kernel by default. Since 12.04, there is no difference in kernel between Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server since linux-image-server is merged into linux-image-generic.

How do I run Ubuntu on Vmware?

Installing Ubuntu in a VM on Windows

Download the Ubuntu iso (desktop not server) and the free VMware Player.
Install VMware Player and run it, you’ll see something like this:
Select “Create a New Virtual Machine”
Select “Installer disc image file” and browse to the Ubuntu iso you downloaded.

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