Installing Ubuntu on your computer

There are two ways of installing Ubuntu on your computer. First is within windows and other is alongside with windows. By first method, ubuntu will be installed as if we are installing some third party software within windows reserving around 17 Gb of space for it. If you are new to ubuntu then its the best way for trying your hands on ubuntu. Just download the latest version of Ubuntu from www.ubuntu.com. Then burn it on a CD and run this CD. Then just click on it and click on Install Within Windows option. But if you have already used it before like me and know about it (a little bit) then just install it alongside with windows. Firstly i would like to tell you that installation of Ubuntu is a little bit differnt than windows. In windows we can install it at a particular partition already created (like suppose windows 7 home basic is installed at C drive of your computer and you want to change it to Ultimate then you can simply select C drive while booting from the Ultimate CD (while its asking where u want to install) and it will format your C drive and Home Basic will be removed and Ultimate will be installed). Before installing ubuntu i created a partition of size 30 Gb and thought of installing of ubuntu at this partition but to my surprise while going through the installation process it didn't worked like i thought. So simply left about 20 Gb of space unallocated (by unallocated i mean that, this 20 Gb is not made any new partition). Then while going through the installation process the time when it asks whether u want to install ubuntu with windows or without windows just choose Something Else. Now u will see something not so eye pleasing. Just select the free space and click on Add below. Then in the pop up window, choose file system as Ext3 mount point as /boot check the format check box and allocate 300 Mb for it. The rest partitions are-
1. Mount point as "/" "Ext3" "7Gb"
2. File system as "Swap" "4Gb" and no mount point
3. At last mount point as "/home" "Ext3" and allocate it all the remaining size.
Finally click on Install Now and complete the installation process.