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A guide to setup and configuring Ubuntu on both VMware as well as dual booting.
Pursuing my undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunication. With a programming experience of 5 years I have contributed to open source from the very start. I have a keen interest in evolving technology and love to get a hands on experience with them. My main goal is to demystify technology for everyone.
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This tutorial is made from what I learnt during my experience of setting up Ubuntu on my virtual machine as well as dual booting. If you are interested in knowing how to setup Ubuntu on VMware the tutorial is right under this paragraph. To setup for dual boot you'd find it below the VMware setup instructions.
Quick Note - Check out Pop!_OS if you are still deciding distros. Thank me later!
Install the VMware Workstation first from the website (one can optionally get the keys from GitHub and get the Pro version for free).
Download the Ubuntu iso (in my case Windows) on the host machine which can be found on the official Ubuntu site.
Open VMware and create new VM followed by these steps:
Linux - Ubuntu 64bitRest steps are easy and configurable on your own.
Let it install, it takes some time and on completion a success message is shown. Once that is done a prompt to restart the VM will be shown and you are done!
To sync Ubuntu's calendar with your Google Calendar you can login with Google too!
Some pre-requisites for doing this include -
.iso file downloaded and readyAlthough the above method mentions Balena Etcher, I feel that should be substituted with Ventoy.
Once you have the above mentioned items ready all you have to do is fire up Etcher with the USB plugged in to your device. Etcher will automatically detect your USB. On rare circumstances if Etcher does not detect your USB, you should check if the USB is being detected by your device first.
A FLASH option should appear when everything is ready. Flashing takes some time and once done you are good to go!
Head over to Windows and search for Disk Management and create a new partition to install Ubuntu in. A minimum of 40GB is recommended, although I had allocated 100GB.
Note - The steps mentioned below are for Dell devices, your BIOS menu and settings may be different so do refer their documentations if the need be. Although the steps mentioned below shouldn't defer depending on device.
The following steps have to be done in order to dual boot Ubuntu -
F12 or whichever shortcut takes you into BIOS mode.BIOS mode, in Boot Menu or in Boot Devices you will find your USB device name mentioned. Click on that and wait for the screen to load.Install Ubuntu.Normal Installation and you can then optionally install third-party software for graphics etc.Installation Type is asked, click on Something else, find for your partition allocated for Ubuntu in the GUI. In the popup select Primary as the type of partition, set the use as Ext4 journaling file system and finally the mount point should be set as /. Verify if the Windows Boot Manager has the type efi and then go ahead and click on Install Now.Now on rebooting your device you shall notice that a bootloader called GRUB starts up. On selecting Ubuntu, Ubuntu shall load and on selecting Windows Boot Manager Windows will load.
One major issue faced when installing Ubuntu on Dell was that I had to turn off RST.
This article provides a great solution to fix the issue. However if you lazy to read the article here are the steps to fix the issue -
Run as administrator) and type in bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal
SATA mode and change the current setting from whatever it was to AHCI. A frightening question can be asked: All existing data stored on the drives will be erased when resetting the controller mode. Do you want to proceed? [Yes] [No] just click on Yes without worrying. Press F10 and it will save and exit from BIOS Setup. safe boot mode. Open CMD and type the following - bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot
And done! Your Ubuntu should start without any issues now!