Installing Ubuntu from a USB Stick and Partitioning

Here I wrote about how to install Windows XP from a USB stick.

Ubuntu is an open-source operating system, available for free unlike windows. In this article, you can find instructions on how to create a USB stick to install Ubuntu. You would need a windows machine and Ubuntu ISO image to create this Ubuntu installation USB stick.

Once USB stick is ready, change the boot option from hard drive to USB Flash drive in BIOS. If your machine does not have any operating system already or if you want to overwrite the existing operating system, then during the partition operation, specify entire drive.

If you already have Windows or any other operating system and you want to keep it intact and install Ubuntu too, then you'd need to do some work. Select Manual in the partition manager. Click on the Windows partition and edit it. Create a new partition for Ubuntu, 10GB is more than enough (as music, videos, pictures etc. should be stored on Windows partition and windows partition can be accessed in Ubuntu. However, ubuntu files may not be accessed in Windows). Select this new free space just created and select new partition. Here, specify the mount point as "/". Leave everything as it is. Continue and ignore the swap space warning.


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