How to Add Linux to Your Windows Computer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews, today I'm going to show you how to add Linux to your Window computer. To begin, let's go to the computer, and we're going to download a distribution of Linux. Open up internet explorer and go to Kubuntu, K, U, K,U, B, U, N, T, U dot org. Kubuntu is a distribution of Linux, it has a great desktop interface. Just select the free download option. I've already got it downloaded so I'm going to go to the installation portion. To install, we're going to use a program called Virtual Box which is available from Sun's website. Just search the internet for Virtual Box and you can get it installed and... now that we're inside the Sun's Virtual Box program, let's click on new and we're going to create a new virtual machine. Say next and give it a name, I'm going to name it Kubuntu. Under OS type, just choose Linux and there's even an ubuntu setting, let's go with ubuntu for this case, and just say next. It's going to ask you how much of your memory you want to give to the machine, the default is fine, now we have to create a hard disk, just say create and then say next, say fixed size image, and give it a size. I'm going to give this one two gigabytes, say next and finish. It's going to go through the process of creating your virtual desk. Now that our hard disk is created, just click next and say finish. As you can see our OS is right here in this list. To boot it, let's select under CD/DVD rom, the ISO file that we downloaded from Ubuntu. Just say mount CD/DVD drive, and select ISO image. I have my ubuntu selected, but you can hit the browse and find your file. Say okay. Now let's start the OS. It is now booting your kubuntu installation options, select English, and then select install Kubuntu. It's that easy to add Linux to your Windows PC. My name is Dave Andrews, and I've just showed you how to add Linux to your Windows PC."