[Munken]

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in one of mine computers, it works fine..... But I only want Ubuntu, how do I get rid of Windows? :think:

 

[Jasen]

A rock works real good at getting rid of windows :mrgreen:

 

[Munken]

I've tried a rock, but it don't fit in the CD slot.

Seriously, it is possible to get rid of it?
I do not like to sit and wait to select Ubu or Win. If I don't choose, Win starts automatically.

 

[tedanderson]

Well there are a couple of things you can do. First, to answer your question directly you can get rid of Windows when you install a fresh instance of Ubuntu. In the setup options it will ask you if you want to keep the current operating system and partitioning in place or if you want to use the entire hard drive for Ubuntu. Choose the latter.

Secondly, there is a utility for Linux called "Start-up Manager" which will allow you to change the boot order so that Ubuntu will be the default and then if for some reason you want to go to Windows, you can wait for the choice screen to come up.

 

[AstroWill]

If you don't have lots of customizations done to your install, and don't have a lot to backup, reinstalling choosing to use the entire hard drive during install is the easiest.

If you want to delete the windows partition and then resize your current Ubuntu partition to use the newly freed space, that can be done as well but isn't as easy. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToRemoveWindows

 

[Munken]

Well there are a couple of things you can do. First, to answer your question directly you can get rid of Windows when you install a fresh instance of Ubuntu. In the setup options it will ask you if you want to keep the current operating system and partitioning in place or if you want to use the entire hard drive for Ubuntu. Choose the latter.

I saw this in the install guide, (pic1) but when I installed it didn't show. It "jumped" to the password page (pic2).

I reinstalled Ubu 4 times, to see if I missed it, but it didn't show up.

 

[AstroWill]

I just booted up into 12.04 install for you so I could take some screenshots, I always choose "Try Ubuntu" from the boot menu, and then install from within the 'live' session.

 

[AstroWill]

Oh, I just thought about this, did you boot from a CD/USB or were you installing from the WUBI from within windows?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_%28Ub ... staller%29

 

[Munken]

I install with WUBI, I guess that's the problem.... is it?

 

[AstroWill]

I install with WUBI, I guess that's the problem.... is it?

Yes, just install from CD/USB and all will be well.

 

[Munken]

Thanks a lot guys, I'll try the CD.

 

[AstroWill]

I also recomend the 32bit version even if you are running a 64bit machine. If you run into any issues, let us know.

Also once you are done installing, don't forget about http://medibuntu.org/index.php for the 'restricted goodies'.

 

[Munken]

Installed InfraRecorder and burned a bootable DVD with Ubuntu. InfraRecorder is funny, when it burn it really burn. (see pic)
So now Ubuntu is installed and running without Windows.

Thanks alot.

 

[SteveND]

my net box is an old xp 2000+, 100g of drive space with 1.5g ddr, I run a distro called Puppy

if anyone wants to run a fun distro this would be the one to start with, all my others run Fedora..

 

[chevymaher]

Okay I took the dive and installed Umbuntu. I have windows XP and it both. Maybe I did something wrong. It works but it is slow. I mean hit a icon on the main page. It flashes. While it does its thing you got time to pull an engine. Meanwhile back at the ranch using windows, it as fast as it ever was. So the computer seems fine.
Any thoughts or is this system just slow?

 

[AstroWill]

Okay I took the dive and installed Umbuntu. I have windows XP and it both. Maybe I did something wrong. It works but it is slow. I mean hit a icon on the main page. It flashes. While it does its thing you got time to pull an engine. Meanwhile back at the ranch using windows, it as fast as it ever was. So the computer seems fine.
Any thoughts or is this system just slow?

What version of Ubuntu are you using, and what is the make and model # of the computer?

 

[Phantom]

Should have at least a 1.6Ghz or better CPU and at least 1 GB Memory ,more memory it will run faster ,,too little memory can slow it down due to trying to process so many processes

 

[chevymaher]

That is probably it. 256 ram. It a good computer but it very old. Hey it was free a customer gave it to me because it was hung up. Had a virus and wouldn't do anything. Re-booted it and it runs great on the windows. But the windows was to a computer that crashed and burned long ago. I lost its key. So either re-boot every month or use umbuntu. So far re-booting would take about as much time as umbuntu just loading.
I need to open it up and see what kind of ram it takes. I got a gig of ram in 2 other blown up computers. I have the elephant graveyard of computers.

 

[Phantom]

That is probably it. 256 ram. It a good computer but it very old. Hey it was free a customer gave it to me because it was hung up. Had a virus and wouldn't do anything. Re-booted it and it runs great on the windows. But the windows was to a computer that crashed and burned long ago. I lost its key. So either re-boot every month or use umbuntu. So far re-booting would take about as much time as umbuntu just loading.
I need to open it up and see what kind of ram it takes. I got a gig of ram in 2 other blown up computers. I have the elephant graveyard of computers.

Yea 256 not much ,, it likely to be 100 0r 133mhz ram , the motherboard will top out at either 512 ram or possibly 1 gig ram depending on which chipset it has

you may be better off in gathering parts from that graveyard of computers and build one that works , if you have a motherboard that can use 1 GB of ram; build on that

I think Ubuntu version 10 , early version of Ubuntu will run on 512ram ,, but the more ram the better

or you can add in another hard drive to your Windows 7 machine and install Ubuntu on it ,

 

[Mr_Roboto]

cool stuff guys, switched to OpenSuSE from RHEL/FC on my home stuff and can't be happier. The wireless support was easy to set up (took me 10 minutes instead of hours) and the virtualization stuff is nice. I'm running a few virtual machines on my desktop (those are RHEL as I'm doing server stuff) and am doing some database stuff.

Besides that, Slackware is good. I always have had a soft spot in my heart for it because it was the second linux distro I used and the first I learned how to do anything real serious with. You will learn a lot about how the configs etc. work if you use it, not to mention it was the first major pre-packaged Linux distribution as well so there is some history to it.