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Begin your journey with Ubuntu here. This is a tutorial about Dual Boot of Ubuntu with Windows

Part 1 - Windows

1. Open Disk Management in Windows to partition your disk

2. Allot space for Ubuntu Installation </br> Select the partition that you want to give for Ubuntu by shrinking the Windows Disk Volume. </br>

Specify the amount of space that you want to allot for Ubuntu. </br>

Make a suitable allotment based on your requirement. Ensure you have at least 35 GB of free storage space for Ubuntu </br>

My Disk Partition is ready. In my 1TB harddisk I am using 512GB for Ubuntu(Unallotted Partition) and the rest for Windows. </br>

3. Download the Image and create a Bootable USB </br> Download the Ubuntu Image from the offical website</br> Link : http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.3/ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso</br> Note: While installing I faced certain issues with 18.04.4, thus, I used 18.04.3 version during my installation.</br>

To flash the image in our system, lets create a bootable pendrive image</br> Download Rufus or Etcher to create a bootable USB Image </br> Link: https://rufus.ie/ (or) Link: https://www.balena.io/etcher/ </br> </br>(or)</br>

• Insert a formatted pendrive with 4GB space available.</br>
• Select the location of downloaded Ubuntu image and the pendrive path.</br>
• Flash the image using any of the 2 softwares. </br>

</br>   We have successfully completed our pre-requisites. Lets jump into our main course. So you both, Refresh and restart!! :-P </br>

Refer :
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/17418/windows-7-create-format-hard-disk-partition </br>
• https://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.3/ </br>

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Part 2 - Ubuntu Installation

1. Changing the boot option </br> Power ON the system and immediately press the boot option button F12 continously(in most of the PCs, check it online). </br> The system enters the boot menu. Select the “USB Boot” option(Sandisk in my case) </br>

2. GRUB Menu </br> In the Grub Menu select “Install Ubuntu” option</br> </br>

3. Select Language </br> </br>

4. Select Keyboard Layout </br> </br>

5. Select Wireless network settings </br> </br>

6. Select the Installation option </br> Select the updates and software that you need. You can proceed with Normal Installation, omit 3rd party softwares and turn off secure boot.</br> </br>

7. Configure Ubuntu Partition </br> </br>

From your free space shown in the list create 4 partion spaces
• /boot (grub and boot)</br>
• / (root - superuser) </br>
• /home (the user) </br>
• /swap (swap space) </br>

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The recommended partition for a PC with 100 GB Ubuntu space
• swap - 2 times the RAM size (For a 4GB RAM, swap is 8GB) </br>
• boot - 1GB </br>
• root - 25GB </br>
• home - 66GB </br>

Select “Boot Loader Installation Space” as /dev/sda </br> My Ubuntu Partition Space with format option selected </br> </br>

You have completed 7.5(Steps) just a few more.</br> You should be getting a confirmation page about your partition. </br> </br>

8. Take Rest - Let it install </br> Proceed with it and your installations would be successfully completed (hopefully :-P) </br>

Note : In some cases, you may need to update your BIOS. Check with the Manufacturer. </br></br>

I too faced errors during my installation and have successfully fixed them. Happy Learning :-P