Help Installing Ubuntu on XP Machine.

[YoHoJo]

First, the website says

You can only directly upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 from Ubuntu 9.04 (see UpgradeNotes).
So should burn the 9.04 iso onto disk, install that, and then upgrade to 9.10?

Anyways, from what I saw at other places, I could just pop in Ubuntu disk, tell it my settings, and then the Ubuntu partitioner would help me with the rest. I thought I would just have to drag a slider to specify how much room i want XP to take and how much room i want Ubuntu to take. Well, that wasn't the case. Im guessing (based on the pictures below) all of my HD (except 54.8MB of it) is NTSF, which wont work/isnt good for Ubuntu. So my question is: How can i make lets say 10GB of my internal HD available to install Ubuntu on?

Also, I have a 500G EXTERNAL Hard Drive, could I possibly install Ubuntu on there? Or would that just be weird,slow, stupid?

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Thanks In Advance,
YoHoJo

[Nava2]

MSN. a

[bullzeye95]

System -> Administration -> GParted. Once loaded, right click on your windows partition (NTFS) -> Resize/Move. You can move some sliders around until you are happy. When that is done, click ok/apply/whatever, and click apply to resize the partition. Then, get the installer up until the screen you are on in those screenshots. Choose the "Specify partitions manually" option and click forward. Double click (or whatever you did to get to that screen on your fourth screenshot) "free space." Change "Use as:" to ext4, check "Format the partition," and set the mount point to "/" (no quotes). If you want a swap file (similar to [or the same as?] a page file on Windows), then lower "New partition size in megabytes" by a gig or two. Click OK, and repeat the process with the remaining free space, but this time instead of ext4, choose linux-swap (or something like that). The rest of the installation should be self-explanatory, but just post if you are stuck.

You should be able to install it on your external hard drive, but unless you have a good reason to, I wouldn't do it; it will just make things slower.

EDIT: Just figured out what nava2 meant by "MSN. a" :rolleyes:

[YoHoJo]

Problem Solved <3 Nava.
<3 You too bullzeye! Thanks guys.
Im happy, except im pissed off because i want to install an earlier version of firefox on ubu and i don't know how!

[bullzeye95]

Problem Solved <3 Nava.
<3 You too bullzeye! Thanks guys.
Im happy, except im pissed off because i want to install an earlier version of firefox on ubu and i don't know how!

I am not on Ubuntu to test, but try "sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0" or "sudo apt-get install firefox-3" (assuming you want version 3).