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I want to put Ubuntu on my Laptop but....

Cyrus9008

Cyrus9008

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I currently want to dual boot windows 7 home ed. and Ubuntu on my laptop(HP Pavilion dv6 6104NR.) On the HP website in Software & Driver Download section for my laptop it only has Windows 7 drivers and says nothing about Linux. Does this basically mean the hardware that's in my laptop doesn't have any Linux drivers? Would it be pointless to try to put linux on my laptop then?
 
Drivers should be taken care of by Ubuntu. You shouldn't have to download anything outside of the repository. You can DuckDuckGo your laptop model and ubuntu as a search string, and find posts that will tell you how well it works.

First thing though, I'd question your desire to dual boot. Duel booting is a PITA, and running Ubuntu in a VM would be a more elegant solution if it meets your needs. Next up would be a wubi install, which is a kind of fake dual boot. That's good for trying it out, but is easier to deal with than a real dual boot as it can be gotten rid of easily, and doesn't require you to partition your drive. Last choice is a real dual boot.
 
I'm a real big newb when it comes to Linux, and I truely mean that in every sense of the word but I want to learn how to use it. I'm going to read more on wubi install. I've tried VM from a cd and it's slow as hell and almost completely useless. A wubi install from what I can tell is kind of strange to me, does it give full functionality as it would if I dual booted?
 
Cyrus9008 said:
I'm a real big newb when it comes to Linux, and I truely mean that in every sense of the word but I want to learn how to use it. I'm going to read more on wubi install. I've tried VM from a cd and it's slow as hell and almost completely useless. A wubi install from what I can tell is kind of strange to me, does it give full functionality as it would if I dual booted?
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Disk access will be slightly slower, but not enough to matter. It'll be a full native Ubuntu install from your perspective.
 
lxskllr said:
Wireless?
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Yea I figured it out I didn't see the icon at the top of the screen for wireless. Linux is strange I was able to install gparted partition program but I have no idea where it installs to or how to open up the program. Wish simple things like this were just that.... simple but it's got to be complex.
 
If you're new to Ubuntu and want to learn how to use it with the minimum of frustration, I would highly suggest setting up a VM for it so that you're not bogged down by driver issues.
 
I am new to Ubuntu and linux, I used fedora in the past and I already installed with wubi and it worked flawlessly, no driver issues
 
Cyrus9008 said:
Yea I figured it out I didn't see the icon at the top of the screen for wireless. Linux is strange I was able to install gparted partition program but I have no idea where it installs to or how to open up the program. Wish simple things like this were just that.... simple but it's got to be complex.
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The binary should be in usr/sbin, and it should showup under the Administrative section of Unity. I don't use that, so I don't know exactly where it is. You can also start it from the terminal by typing

gksu gparted

gksu is to launch a graphical program as administrator. sudo is what you'd use to launch an administrative command in the terminal.
 
lol I already can't boot into it for some reason. I updated the OS like ubuntu told me to do and when I get to the dual boot menu and select Ubuntu i get a blank screen. I'm going to reinstall and not update it.
 
Don't update GRUB if that's one of the updates you get. I know with older versions of wubi it caused issues. I don't know if that's been worked out or not.
 
ok wish i knew that before, I uninstalled ubuntu. Im trying to reinstall but I'm now having problems getting it to load
 
It might be the update released yesterday "3.0.0.15". My laptop wouldn't boot after installing it. The screen went kinda black, then slowly went to all white. Very weird. Had to F8(or F5, F6, F7, I hit them all, lol) to select the previous install.
 
If you're using one of the versions of Ubuntu with the unity interface (11.04 or 11.10), just click the Ubuntu logo on the top left (dash home) and begin typing gparted or part. It will pop out.

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wubi sucks for everything except just a cursory test drive. The installer makes it easy enough to partition the HD. I always go for the fully encrypted LVM, and then set windows as the grub default OS.

The only proprietary driver you might need to worry about is probably the graphics, if you have ATI or nvidia chips, each of them will probably break hibernate/suspend though and the FOSS drivers are ok for 2D most of the time.
 
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