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

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