One of the entries will be to boot into the Live desktop. If the computer has been set up to boot from external media, you should see the Ubuntu 16.04 boot menu. Finally, insert the installation media into the appropriate location and reboot the computer. Then download an installation image of Ubuntu 16.04 from here, transfer it to a USB stick or burn it to a blank DVD (are you still using that?). If you have an OEM (store-bought) computer that came with Windows 10, you might want to disable Secure Boot.Īlso, shrink you C drive to make room for installing Ubuntu 16.04. The computer used is self-built, so Secure Boot ( Restricted Boot, actually) is not a factor. Swap is a portion of unformatted disk space that the system may use as virtual memory. For this article, we’ll be creating three partitions for Ubuntu 16.04 – a root partition, another one for your files and folders and a third that will be used as swap space. Part 2 is available at Triple-boot Linux Mint 17.3, Ubuntu 16.04, Windows 10 on a PC with UEFI firmwareĮnough space will have to be recovered from that single hard drive to use for creating the partitions for installing Ubuntu 16.04.

If you intend to triple-boot Ubuntu 16.04, Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17.3 on the same hard drive, then consider this article part 1 of a 2-part series. This post shows how to dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 on a computer with UEFI firmware and on a single hard drive.

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