How to install Ubuntu 10.10

Put your Ubuntu 10.10 CD in drive and restart your system. It will open with welcome box. In that you have to press Install Ubuntu button
You will see a new box call preparing to install Ubuntu box. Just press Forward button.
Now you will see a new box in that you have to select “Install along side other operating system”
Press Forward button.
You will see a new box of “Allocate drive space”: in that you will see a RED COLLUR “advanced partitioning tool” just press it.
Now you will see Allocate drive space.
Now you can see
Device Type Size Used
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 ntfs 104MB 35MB
dev/sda 2 ntfs 209609MB 18054 MB
dev/sda 3 ntfs 157286 MB 3221MB
dev/sda 4 ntfs 133106MB
(Note: - this information is my system hard drive information so in you system your hard drive information you will see)
So I selected /dev/sda 4 for Ubuntu 10.10.
If you just press on /dev/sda4 you will see three button enabled 1. Change 2.Delete 3. Revert
Just to to second button that is deleting after Delete you will see free space
Now just click on free space you will see one box Add
Press add button now it will open a box called Create Partition
Now you have to go Mount point box you will see
/, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, /srv, /opt, /usr/local.
First you will go to /boot. Now you have to go “new Partition size in megabytes(1000000bytes);” and now give 4000 ( I have lot of space in my hard disk that way I given 4000 so you have to give as per Ubuntu manual instructions) and press ok button
Now again you go to free space and press /home give 4000 and press OK like that you have to give all partitions. After all partitions allocated is over now you have to give /swap partition.
The size of /swap partitions is 2 times of your Ram (Exp:- RAM is 1 GB you have to give 2GB (2000) as /swap partitions
And finally / (ROOT) reaming available free space you have to give for / (ROOT) partition.
And press “Install Now” button
You will see a box “do you want to return to this partitions menu
Just press “Continue button”
After that you have to
Set Time and press forward button
Key board lay out “USA” press Forward button
Type you name --> fill all filled and press Forward button
After installation is over restart the system
After Installation you will see a box in booting time in that you have to choose which operating system you have to run.
Booting box looks like this
GNU GRUB VERSION 1.98+20100804-5 Ubuntu3
Ubuntu,with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic
Ubuntu,with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (Recovery mode)
Memory test (Memtest 86+)
Memory test (Memtest 86+ serial console 115200)
Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)
In this way I have successfully installed windows7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on HP system in my office. Do the same thing and enjoy.
All the best