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Installing Ubuntu on second hard drive

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xlh1000

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Aug 6, 2008
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I finally got my Ubuntu CD in the mail today.
I would like to install it on to the second hard drive that the fine users of this community help me install a while back.

It appears i can not run the live CD, as that requires 384 MB of RAM. I only have 256.
Will it still have dual boot capability from the slave drive, or does it have to be on drive C for that?

Basically, i just want to install it without affecting windows on my C drive in any way.

Any help and tips installing this would be greatly appreciated. Pro's and cons, different configurations, ect.

Thank you.
 
I can tell you that it will likely run slowly with only 256M of RAM (I just installed it on a friend's PC and I gave him a little more memory to boost him to 512.)

If you still need to install you'll need to get the alternate CD installer which is a text-only mode installer.

With 256M of RAM the machine I was on was swapping constantly and was very slow as a result.

As far as installing ubuntu on a second drive, it can be done, but the bootloader will have to be loaded into the MBR of the first drive. Otherwise there are no issues.
 
Thanks Danomac, i may just wait until i add the extra memory.
I had no idea it was such a memory hog.
 
I do believe a lot of the extra memory is consumed by compiz, and I think I disabled it by unchecking something in the (very few) options. It didn't really seem to have any effect on the PC's overall speed, however.
 
Thank you geirendre, i'm going to give that a try.
 

I dont get broadband where i live, so downloading to my computer is not happening.
Is it possible to download Xubuntu onto a CD?
If so, i can have a friend download it from that link to a CD for me.
 
Well, the only way to get it onto an CD is burning it to the CD with a computer.
So you (or somebody else) need to download it first.
Maby you have a local Linux User Group near you that can help you
get a copy of an CD.( It's legal to copy Ubuntu CD's)
 
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