Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Installing Ubuntu 13.10 alongside Windows 7 on Samsung Netbook N150

I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 alongside Windows 7.

Firstly, download the Ubuntu 13.10 ISO (I chose the 32 bit version because my netbook has 1GB memory). Then, create a bootable USB stick using Pen Drive Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows).

Insert the USB to the netbook, then turn the netbook on. It will automatically load the Ubuntu. I chose the install ubuntu alongside windows option. Then I had to setup the wireless network. However, the installation suddenly quit and it restart the netbook.

The cause of the problem was the primary partition in the netbook harddisk. The harddisk already had 4 primary partition. I tried to delete one of the partition which I didn't need anymore.

Then I tried the installation process again, and this time it was successful.