Dual boot windows 7 & Ubuntu using windows installer

 

Dual boot windows 7 & Ubuntu using windows installer

 Prerequisites

1.       Windows 7 installed.
2.       Ubuntu 12.04 iso and wubi.exe file to be copied on the windows 7 machine.

Installation steps

     èDownload the windows installer wubi.exe file from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer

     èCopy the wubi.exe file and the iso file in same directory

èNow run the wubi.exe windows installer file, you will require administrative rights to do this, you wil get a dialog box as shown below,

èSelect the installation drive where you want to store the installation files of Ubuntu,

 
èSelect the installation size for the Ubuntu a minimum of 5GB and maximum of 30GB will be available based on the space available on your disk selected,

 

èSelect the desktop environment here it is ubuntu, give the password for the username which you will be using to logon into ubuntu.

           è Now click Install and the installation procedure will start with the following screen

èAfter the installation files copied to the drive setup will ask for reboot, select reboot and click finish.

èNow the system will reboot and start the Ubuntu installation

èAfter installation is completed, and after rebooting your system  is ready with dual booting select the required os and you can work with it.

èSelecting Ubuntu will show the following screen select the first and Ubuntu will be loaded

èThe partition in ubuntu shows as below,