 We will start with Ubuntu installation, this is Ubuntu 8.04 version, first we will insert the CD into the CD drive, you have to first check that the boot private is set to boot from the CD, if it is not I will just show you how to do that. Insert the CD and restart your machine, after restarting you will have to press F10, F12 or delete key simultaneously or F2, either one of the keys will lead you to the boot menu, set your boot private to boot from CD drive, now this is the language which you are going to use for installation English, press enter, now the screen shows you the four options through which you can install, we are going to use the second option, install Ubuntu, this is the progress bar showing the beginning of the installation, has everyone got this screen, it will take some time, select English and click on forward, now the there is a screen with world map, here you have to select the location, you can either do it from this drop down box or just click on the India Calcutta and click on forward, now this is the keyboard layout, we are going to select USA forward, now your partition screen will appear, this screen is showing the partitions of your hard disk, sorry, now I have installed windows on my machine, so this is Microsoft Windows XP, these are the various options through which you can install on your hard disk Ubuntu, first is guided resize, second guided use entire hard disk, third largest continuous space and fourth is manual, now if you are going to do the fresh installation, you will select guided use entire hard disk, as we are going to do the dual boot installation, we are going to select manual, click on forward, now as I told you I have windows on my machine, so this partition, they have SDA one NTFS, NTFS and FAT are the two file systems for Windows, I have done, I have used NTFS, so it is showing file type NTFS, the memory size, sorry, the hard disk space used and this is the free space, this is the use space and this is the total available space used for Windows, that is the C drive and this is the available free space, now select the free space and click on new partition, the create partition window will appear, from here you have to do some selections, like type of the new partition, you can keep it primary or logical, then the size in megabytes, you can allocate as you wish, the partition can be done, depending upon your disk space, then the location, keep the default, use as, these are the file systems, so we are going to keep it as ext3, now you have to select the mount point slash, this is the root partition, I have allocated, now you will see that dev SDA 2 ext3 mount point as slash and the allocated space, at some space is given to the root partition, again click on free space, new partition, again it can be primary or logical, then we are going to create the swap partition, it has to be double of RAM, my system is having 4 GB or 2 GB of RAM, so I am going to give 4 GB, swap always has to be double of RAM, then select the free space, new partition and mount point as slash home, you can allocate slash home the entire remaining space or you can again give the size as you wish, here I am giving the entire space to slash home, these are the basic 3 partitions used for Ubuntu, then you can partition, you can use different partitions like slash boot slash usr for installations, if you have many logins you can use slash where, click on forward, on this screen you have to fill up the information like what is your name, then the name through which you want to login, then choose a password and last the name which will appear on your desktop and click on forward, if you have to import any of the accounts to the Ubuntu partition and which are suitable for Ubuntu, it will be displayed and if it does not have this screen will appear, click on forward, now here is the log of the things which we did, like the language of the installation keyboard layout, login name and all that location everything, if you feel that whatever you entered is correct, click on install or you can go back and check it out once, now click on install, the system is being installed on your disk, partitions are being formatting, this will take about an half an hour to complete the installation, now the time required depends upon the speed of the processor we are using, this screen shows that the installation is complete, click on restart now, the CD use for installation will come out by default, just remove it and press enter, now the screen is showing the Ubuntu install on your system and as I had windows, the last option was of Microsoft windows, please enter the user name which you had set during installation, below here are the different options to restart shutdown and etcetera, password given and this is the screen, Ubuntu screen, installation is complete.