I installing the ubuntu for my friend as following steps:
- make the bootable thumb drive from existing ubuntu system
- plug the thumb drive to the pc, and restart the computer
- press the F12 key
- select to boot from USB Storage Drive
- booting the ubuntu from USB
- select the Install option
- re-size the existing partition for installing the ubuntu. This step need to very very very and very careful! it’s very possible to format your existing drive!* Make sure read every single word before you click the “OK” button! I was unexpectedly select the change the existing partition size and select the format as “swap” which should not do like this, so that drive has been re-formatted! But it’s not because of ubuntu not friendly, it does prompt the warning that will ease the data from that drive, but I was too hungry to try to speed up the process, so I select the format as “swap”, then after I click “OK”, then it’s starting re-sizing the drive and formatting the used part as *SWAP*!
- lose data from that drive…
- start crying…