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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS aka Bionic Beaver was released on April 26th, 2018 with a lot of changes on front end as well as on backend. Major change that anybody who has ever used Ubuntu, will notice the new Desktop Environment.
You should start noticing the changes beginning with the Ubuntu Installation, we now have a new wallpaper when we boot into Ubuntu & during installation, we now get option to have a minimal installation, that gives you a web browser & some basic utilities.
The Ultimate Guide On Dual Boot Linux With Windows 10 Nowadays, Linux is one of the most popular operating system in the world. Besides any other OS (Operating System) most of the PC users want to install Linux /Linux based operating system on their PC. But without a proper guideline, they can’t dual boot Linux alongside Windows.
- Apr 09, 2018 Install Linux Mint in dual boot with Windows: Step 1: Create a live USB or disk. Go to Linux Mint website and download ISO file. Step 2: Make a new partition for Linux Mint. This is where you have to be cautious. Step 3: Boot in to live USB. Plug the live USB or disk into the computer and restart.
- Dual boot means running two separate OS in the same HDD. If you are not a fan of Windows 10, then don’t worry — with this tutorial you can also dual boot Kali Linux with Windows 7/8/8.1. Before starting tutorial checkout — 5 things to do before dual booting Linux with Windows.
The Unity Desktop environment has been replaced with GNOME, as Ubuntu has ended development on Unity. LightDM login manager has been swapped with Gnome’s GDM login manager. Ubuntu 18.04 still uses XORG display server by default, which was replaced to Wayland display server in Ubuntu 17.10. Ubuntu 18.04 now has support for color emoji icons, also Ubuntu now allows us to live patch our systems i.e. we can now patch our kernels without having to restart our systems.
On the software front, most of the defaults remains the same. We have usual thunderbird, libre office, Firefox , Nautilus file manager etc at our disposal, their versions have been upgraded. Also, you should not worry about Spectre & Meltdown attacks with Ubuntu 18.04.
So that was something brief about Ubuntu 18.04, let’s now get to our main topic, which is how to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10 system. So let’s get starting,
Dual boot Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Windows 10
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For purpose of this tutorial, we assume that you have Windows 10 system with at least 25 Gb free HDD space. If you have then move onto the article,
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Step:1) Login into your Windows 10 system. Once done, we need to open Disk Management Console. To open Disk Management console, open run prompt (by pressing Windows Key + R or by typing ‘run’ in search bar) & type ‘diskmgmt.msc‘
Step:2) We need to free up some space from our HDD, we will do it by shrinking the volume that has some free space. Select the partition with some free space (at least 25 Gb), right click & select ‘Shrink Volume‘
Step:3) On next screen, select the amount you want to shrink and press ‘Shrink’. For our tutorial, we will be using 40 GB,
Step:4) As shown is the screenshot below, we now have 40 GB of unallocated space that will be used for Ubuntu 18.04 installation
Step:5) Next step is to shutdown your system & insert a bootable USB or a Live DVD for Ubuntu 18.04 onto the system & than boot the system into the Ubuntu image,
Step:6) Once the Ubuntu image has been booted up, we should see the following options. Select ‘Install Ubuntu’,
Step:7) On next screen, we will be asked for ‘Keyboard Layout’, I am leaving it at default, modify it as per your needs & press Continue,
Step:8) On the next screen we are introduced to a little change, we have an extra option to select what apps we need to install on our system & we can either select Normal installation with all the default applications or we can also select Minimal Installation with only a web browser & some basic utilities. Select the option, you see fit & press Continue,
Step:9) On the next screen, we will select the installation type. Since we are dual booting with Window 10, we will select the first option ‘Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10′, rest options can be choosen when we are installing Ubuntu afresh,
Step:10) On the following screen, press ‘Write changes to disk‘ to proceed further with the installation,
Step:11) Now we would be asked about our Geographical location, select your country & proceed by clicking on the Continue button,
Step:12) Now comes the part of installation, where we need to create information about our User, our computer name & password etc. Enter all the requested information & once done, press Continue,
Step:13) We have now entered all the needed information, Ubuntu will now proceed with the installation & depending on the allocated system resources it can take anywhere between 5 to 20 mins,
Step:14) Once the installation has been completed, we will be asked to restart our system. Press on ‘Restart Now’. Also remove the installation media from system before restarting the system,
Step:15) Now when the system is restarted, we will see the following boot menu first. Here we can either opt to login to Ubuntu by selecting the first option or we can also boot into Windows 10 by selecting the last option. We will boot into Ubuntu,
Step:16) Now after completing the bootup process, we will see the login screen. Select the created user & enter the password to login,
Step:17) That’s it guys, we have successfully installed Ubuntu along with Windows 10 & can now use both the operating systems without an issue,
This completes our tutorial on how to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10. Hope the tutorial was clear enough. If have any questions or queries, please let us know using the comment box below.
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This tutorial will guide you on how you can perform the installation of Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 18.10, or Ubuntu 18.04 in dual-boot with a Microsoft Operating System on machines that come pre-installed with Windows 10.
This guide assumes that your machine comes pre-installed with Windows 10 OS or an older version of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 8.1 or 8.
In case your hardware uses UEFI then you should modify the EFI settings and disable Secure Boot feature.
If your computer has no other Operating System already installed and you plan to use a Windows variant alongside Ubuntu, you should first install Microsoft Windows and then proceed with Ubuntu installation.
In this particular case, on Windows installation steps, when formatting the hard disk, you should allocate a free space on the disk with at least 20 GB in size in order use it later as a partition for Ubuntu installation.
Requirements
Download Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 18.10, or Ubuntu 18.04 ISO Image as per your system architecture using following link:
![Boot Boot](/uploads/1/2/6/1/126140816/371875531.jpg)
Step 1: Prepare Windows Machine for Dual-Boot
1. The first thing you need to take care is to create a free space on the computer hard disk in case the system is installed on a single partition.
Login to your Windows machine with an administrative account and right click on the Start Menu->Command Prompt (Admin) in order to enter Windows Command Line.
2. Once in CLI, type
diskmgmt.msc
on prompt and the Disk Management utility should open. From here, right click on C:
partition and select Shrink Volume in order to resize the partition.Shrink Volume to Resize Windows Partition
3. On Shrink
C:
enter a value on space to shrink in MB (use at least 20000 MB depending on the C: partition size) and hit Shrink to start partition resize as illustrated below (the value of space shrink from below image is lower and only used for demonstration purposes).Once the space has been resized you will see a new unallocated space on the hard drive. Leave it as default and reboot the computer in order to proceed with Ubuntu installation.
Windows Partition for Dual Boot Ubuntu Installation
Step 2: Install Ubuntu with Windows Dual-Boot
4. For the purpose of this article, We will be installing Ubuntu 19.04 alongside with Windows dual boot (you can use any Ubuntu release fro installation). Go the download link from the topic description and grab Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 ISO image.
Burn the image to a DVD or create a bootable USB stick using a utility such as Universal USB Installer (BIOS compatible) or Rufus (UEFI compatible).
Place the USB stick or DVD in the appropriate drive, reboot the machine and instruct the BIOS/UEFI to boot-up from the DVD/USB by pressing a special function key (usually F12, F10 or F2 depending on the vendor specifications).
Once the media boot-up a new grub screen should appear on your monitor. From the menu select Install Ubuntu and hit Enter to continue.
5. After the boot media finishes loading into RAM you will end-up with a completely functional Ubuntu system running in live-mode.
On the Launcher hit on the second icon from top, Install Ubuntu 19.04 LTS, and the installer utility will start. Choose the language you wish to perform the installation and click on Continue button to proceed further.
Select Ubuntu Installation Language
6. Next, choose the first option “Normal Installation” and hit on Continue button again.
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7. Now it’s time to select an Installation Type. You can choose to Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager, option that will automatically take care of all the partition steps.
Use this option if you don’t require personalized partition scheme. In case you want a custom partition layout, check the Something else option and hit on Continue button to proceed further.
The option Erase disk and install Ubuntu should be avoided on dual-boot because is potentially dangerous and will wipe out your disk.
Select Ubuntu Installation Type
8. On this step we’ll create our custom partition layout for Ubuntu. On this guide will recommend that you create two partitions, one for
root
and the other for home
accounts data and no partition for swap
(use a swap partition only if you have limited RAM resources or you use a fast SSD).To create the first partition, the
root
partition, select the free space (the shrink space from Windows created earlier) and hit on the +
icon below. On partition settings use the following configurations and hit OK to apply changes:- Size = at least 20000 MB
- Type for the new partition = Primary
- Location for the new partition = Beginning
- Use as = EXT4 journaling file system
- Mount point = /
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Root Partition Settings
Create the
home
partition using the same steps as above. Use all the available free space left for home partition size. The partition settings should look like this:- Size = all remaining free space
- Type for the new partition = Primary
- Location for the new partition = Beginning
- Use as = EXT4 journaling file system
- Mount point = /home
9. When finished, hit the Install Now button in order to apply changes to disk and start the installation process.
A pop-up window should appear to inform you about swap space. Ignore the alert by pressing on Continue button.
Next a new pop-up window will ask you if you agree with committing changes to disk. Hit Continue to write changes to disk and the installation process will now start.
Confirm Partition Changes
10. On the next screen adjust your machine physical location by selecting a city nearby from the map. When done hit Continue to move ahead.
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11. Pick up a username and password for your administrative sudo account, enter a descriptive name for your computer and hit Continue to finalize the installation.
This are all the settings required for customizing Ubuntu installation. From here on the installation process will run automatically until it reaches the end.
Create Ubuntu User Account
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12. After the installation process reaches its end hit on Restart Now button in order to complete the installation.
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The machine will reboot into the Grub menu, where for ten seconds, you will be presented to choose what OS you wish to use further: Ubuntu 19.04 or Microsoft Windows.
Ubuntu is designated as default OS to boot from. Thus, just press Enter key or wait for those 10 seconds timeout to drain.
Ubuntu Installation Completed
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13. After Ubuntu finishes loading, login with the credentials created during the installation process and enjoy it. Ubuntu provides NTFS file system support automatically so you can access the files from Windows partitions just by clicking on the Windows volume.
Ubuntu Login Screen
That’s it! In case you need to switch back to Windows, just reboot the computer and select Windows from the Grub menu.
If you want to install some additional software packages and customize Ubuntu, then read our article Top 20 Things to Do After Ubuntu Installation.