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P5K3 Deluxe (WiFi AP Edition) + Vista 64-bit and Ubuntu 7.10 (64-bit desktop edition)

admin | January 19, 2008

The selected hardware components are a direct hit to get a new and fast working machine with ubuntu linux and vista 64 bit editions including a wireless connection to the internet router.

Asus P5K3 Deluxe (WiFi AP Edition)
2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333 MHz Kit CAS 9
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphic card (DirectX 10 compatible, cheap and without a fan). A better graphic card will maybe also work fine.
2 x S-ATA II Harddisks
P5K3 Deluxe (WiFi AP Edition) supported powersupply
Case
Intel Dual Core CPU (775 socket)

Ok, before i start to explain how i installed a multi-boot system with Vista 64-bit and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 i tell you that i connected two SATA harddisks to my mainboard. The first harddisk contains Vista and the second harddisk contains Ubuntu.

So disk 1 with Vista (64-bit) will be

/sda

disk 2 with Ubuntu (64-bit) will be

/sdb

I also prepared a bootable Ubuntu DVD from an ISO file from the Ubuntu website. Before continuing: Make sure that you have made a backup of all your important data if you do not start from scratch (a completely new installation).

1. At first (after installing the hardware (CPU and fan, mainboard, harddrives, graphic card, tower and powersupply unit as described in the supplied manuals from the manufacturers) i installed vista on my first harddisk. i just had to put the dvd into the dvd-drive and boot from this device. Make sure the DVD drive boots first (BIOS Options).

The Vista installation should start itself. The installation is easy and you will prompted for details if it goes to specific informations like Computername, User, Partitions, Date and time, language etc.

2. Then i installed all new and required drivers and software for the mainboard provided from the Asus support site for Vista OS (64-bit). That´s it for the first time. Individual software and Vista updates can be installed at a later time (right after the ubuntu installation).

3. Ubuntu install: i configured my BIOS to boot the Ubuntu DVD first.

After this i inserted the Ubuntu DVD and turned on my PC again.

4. The Ubuntu Live install should then normally start. For installing Ubuntu look at the installation steps from the really good documented Ubuntu websites or video-clips (see sources below). The most important thing is that i had to select the second harddisk drive (/sdb, see screenshot)

Otherwise you have to select “Manually edit partition table if you want to prepare the disk space for Ubuntu OS on only one existing harddisk where Vista exists or if you want different partitions formatted with ext3 file system. In the case where you want to install Ubuntu and Vista on only one disk it is also required that you have different partitions for Vista and Ubuntu. Otherwise Ubuntu normally erases the first disk/partition to install.

Select your language with F2

Select Ubuntu start or install (Ubuntu starten oder installieren)

Wait…

double click on install icon (Doppelklick auf installieren-symbol)

Choose language

Select Timezone/Country

Select keyboard-layout

Load software for partitioning

Prepare harddisk

Importing accounts

Realname, Username, password, Name of Computer

Summary page

Bootloader

Formatting partitions

Installation (basic configuration) – analyze files

Installation (basic configuration) – copy files

Security updates not available

Installation (basic configuration) – hardware configuration

Remove DVD from drive before rebooting

Ubuntu Login

Firefox on Ubuntu

5. The next part was to configure my WLAN, but this was no problem. I already had configured my router with preshared keys and TKIP encryption. So i just selected the right options in the appropriate settings menu and entered the shared key, that´s all. I got my wireless connection and opened firefox to test the connection. It works great.

Select wireless network

Select available private/own network

Sound is also available through Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Ubuntu configured graphics and sound by default. No additional driver installation was required to start with UBUNTU.

WLAN connection available

Bootmenu after installation and reboot

The Ubuntu Linux installation took less one hour including formatting the harddisk. That was amazing, i remember the times ten years ago installing Linux…