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...anyway is it advisable to install in a partition?

No, you must have 2 special partitions for linux, so you will need to have some free space after windows partition. Once you do have, you can tell the setup to automatically part the free (unallocated) space, to have it installed properly.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm

No, you must have 2 special partitions for linux, so you will need to have some free space after windows partition. Once you do have, you can tell the setup to automatically part the free (unallocated) space, to have it installed properly.

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Now i didnt got you!...

I need to create 2 new partitions?!

You'll need one partition for the operating system and one for a swap drive (like virtual memory).

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Originally posted by Chris.
and one for a swap drive (like virtual memory)

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And how many memory shall i give to that partition?

Look, leave like 20GB of your HD unallocated (this is there is no partition un that part of the HD). Then start Kubuntu's installation and select the Unallocated part of the disk (using the manual partition setup when asked). Then choose the option to automatically set up partitions in the unallocated space. This will most likely create a 1GB swap partition and a 19GB ext3 format partition. Feel free to use less space if you need it for windows, but you will find yourself installing lots of software, so you'll maybe need at least 10GB in the "working" partition (no the swap one). However, the default installation dowsn't take more than 1GB, iirc.

Thanks KS ...dodgy firefox freezed 3 hours ago when it was at 65 %...now i'm downloading again and it's at 55%...I have to clean my HD  a lot...I have lots of crap i don't need...c ya..thank u very much really

Anytime

Actually I just noticed this was a Thread for linux capabilities and not a support thread for installation of Kubuntu

If anybode cares, please split the last part to somewhere else

I installed ubuntu on vmware, it's a very nice distro

Does anyone know of a linux that will run on 256mb of ram and an intel celeron, i tried to install fedora on it before but it used to take ages to load and then it wud crash