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How to Install Windows 7

Here are the following steps for installing Windows 7 operating system,

First of all download the Windows 7 ISO image from the Microsoft.

Preparing DVD from the ISO image

Since many of the people are installing Windows 7 in a real hardware, for that, first of all burn the DVD from the ISO image, using DVD burner software and a blank DVD.

Setting up Computer & BIOS (if required)

You have to reboot your computer after popping in all new Windows 7 DVD. In most cases you’ll automatically boot in the Windows 7 Installation DVD. But in some rare cases you have to change the setting of BIOS as per the requirement.

Booting Up

Steps from here are pretty straight forward. Read the each and every descriptions in each pages before clicking the Next button to avoid any disasters. If there is an options to choose in these steps you may find them with each image.

Follow the step as per in the image for the installation,

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You can choose your Language from dropdowns, Time and Currency format, and Keyboard or input method here.

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Choose 'I accept the license terms' checkbox and click 'Next'.

Choose as per the installation do you want.

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Upgrade options:- Is for those who wish to upgrade an existing installation of older version of Windows.

We will opt for the second option here, Custom install.

Choose where did you want to install Windows 7.

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Choose the drive.You have to make sure that the drive in which you are installing Windows 7, should don't have important data or the Windows 7 installation copy.

Creating an Partition or Modifying it.

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Click on the Drive options (advanced) for advanced partition management options like 'Delete', 'Format', 'New' and 'Extend'. To create a new partition click the New button. But if you have list of partitions, choose the one where you are planning to install windows 7 and click Format. Then click 'Next' to proceed.

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The 'New' option provides a text box to enter the size of the partition you wish to create in MBs. A 15 GB (15*1024 = 15360 MB) is recommended. In this case I opted for the full size of my virtual drive, i.e. 9216 MB. Click the Apply button to continue. Windows may be greeted you with a message To ensure that all Windows features work correctly, windows might create additional partitions for system files. . This is a new feature in Windows 7 to have a small boot partition for system files. Click Okto continue.

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How to install linux in USB hard drive?

In the following tutorial below shown how to install linux in the external USB drive, installing linux in the USB drive will help you plug and play the external linux OS on any machine. You can also delete the file from the USB drive if you do not need them.

1. Before installing linux in the USB drive, make sure you format the USB drive using the NTFS file system and also name the volume label USB.
2. After formatting the USB drive from the windows go to start > Run > type cmd in the command prompt type diskpart and press enter
3. When you press the enter the list of volumes will be displayed on the screen
4. Locate the Volume with the USB disk and type select volume # (were # is the volume number of your USB disk and press enter.
5. Now type active to make a bootable disk.
6. Next, copy all the file from your hard drive to USB drive also the view the hidden files.
7. There should be files ubuntu, boot.ini, NTDETECT.com, ntldr, wubildr, wubildr.mbr shown on the USB drive.
8. Now from the USB disk find ubuntu\disks\boot\grub and open the file menu.lst with the text editor.
9. Scroll down to line 132 and change the root= UUID from root=UUID= 1234567890 to root=LABEL=USB
10. Now save all the changes and boot your system. Go to BIOS and set the boot device order when the boot menu window XP and Ubuntu is shown then select the option Ubuntu and boot the system.
11. Once the system is booted safely you have successfully installed linux on your USB drive.

 

 

How to assign IP address on the linux computer?

If you want to configure the Ip address on your linux computer there are some simple steps that you should follow. Use the following command

First backup all the network settings /etc/network/interfaces file by typing the code in the console ‘cp/etc/network/interfaces/etc/network/interfaces.backup’

Now type

Ifconfig eth1 10. 255. 0. 1 broadcast 10.255.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0

if you want to make the setting permanent then you can edit the file or create the file.

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and edit the file and give the desired ip address numbers.
Device = eth1
Ip address = 10.255.0.1
Broadcast = 10.255.0.255
Netmask = 255.255.255.0
On boot = yes

 
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