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I'm a first time user, and I literally just downloaded an burned it to disk about an hour ago. So I put the disk in an chose the install option. Now after reading the install instruction on the website it said I should get the option to install along side my current OS, but its only giving me two options. First option to replace my current OS or the something else option. As stated I am a first time user an don't want to replace my current OS but I don't know enough about Ubuntu to install by the something else option. Can someone please help walk me through the steps to install Ubuntu along side my current OS.

Please and thank you very much for you help an support.

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It means you dont have enough hard disk space in your hard disk ,can you please post your partition table?cc – Tachyons Apr 19 '12 at 8:14
You should free some hard disk space to get an unpartitioned space on the disk for Ubuntu. Safest would be to do that from your current OS (assuming you know how to do it there). Only then you will be presented the "alongside" option from the Ubuntu installer. See also this question. – Takkat Apr 19 '12 at 9:53
This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, could you perhaps add more detail to your question? If this question no longer applies then you can either delete it or answer it yourself if you've solved the problem. This is to help with the Ask Ubuntu Clean Up. If you feel this question is not abandoned, please flag the question explaining that. :) – Seth Jan 1 at 4:31

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Allocate drive space

Use the checkboxes to choose whether you'd like to Install Ubuntu alongside another operating system, delete your existing operating system and replace it with Ubuntu, or – if you're an advanced user – choose the Something else option

Installation type selection window from Ubuntu install to computer with Windows 7 installed

Begin the installation

Depending on your previous selections, you can now verify that you have chosen the way in which you would like to install Ubuntu. The installation process will begin when you click the Install Now button.

Ubuntu needs about 4.5 GB to install so add a few extra GB to allow for your files. Not sure about this step? Windows users can use Wubi, which will install and uninstall Ubuntu in the same way as any other Windows application. It's simple and safe.

Partition size selection window from Ubuntu alongside Windows installation

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In its current form it is hard to either answer your question or to even know if your question is, in fact, already answered. The How to Ask (aka "asking help") section contains the following suggestion.

Be specific

If you ask a vague question, you’ll get a vague answer. But if you give us details and context, we can provide a useful answer.

Here are some specifics which you could include in your question which would aid people attempting to answer it.

  1. Exactly what is your current OS and hardware?
    You never actually state this. It is hard to offer specific suggestions when we don't know what context you are working in. Windows 7 perhaps? Or XP or Vista? Or maybe you are using an Apple MacBook? A PowerPC?? 32-bit or 64-bit? How many hard drives are involved? Is there just one current OS or do you have multiple installations in different partitions?
    We can guess that you are (probably) using Windows 7 on a single drive with a single partition, but it would help to actually know.
  2. What version of Ubuntu are you installing? 10.04? 11.10? 12.04 beta 2? 32-bit or 64-bit? How installation method are you using? CD? USB drive? WUBI?

  3. What is your experience level with your current OS?
    You state that you are a first time Ubuntu user from which we can probably infer that you are also new to Linux/Unix. But how familiar are you with other computing concepts? How concise can we be in an answer? What analogies can we draw on to help explain a concept?

  4. What is the installation configuration of your current OS?
    Many of the answers already provided are guessing that you have no free space on your hard drive into which Ubuntu can be installed. But we have no way of actually knowing for sure without more information from you.

    • Perhaps you aren't sure how to determine if you have "free space". We can try to help but please understand that to offer useful suggestions we need the information for (1) above. (And knowing something about (2) & (3) wouldn't hurt either.)
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