Install ubuntu 13.04 alongside windows 8

Question

Currently I am using Windows 8 in my dell N4050 machine. It has 4GB of RAM, 320GB HDD. Now I want to install ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows. I tried several times after reading some blogs. But every time I failed.

I downloaded Ubuntu 32bit from the official site and made my pendrive into bootable device using Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.3.7.exe.

I could not burn a DVD and boot from it because my DVD drive is not working somehow.

By the way, I did all the normal stuff what is needed for installing Ubuntu. In installation process Install ubuntu alongside windows 8 should have appeared but I just saw Replace Ubuntu with Windows 8 and Something else. Then I tried going with something else, I did not see such option where I can chose to use ubuntu alongside windows.

Answer 1

You definitely have 64bit processor according to Dell Inspiron N4050 specs (http://www.specsbox.com/628/dell-inspiron-n4050-14-laptop.html), and all possible CPU specs (http://ark.intel.com/products/55627/Intel-Pentium-Processor-B950-2M-Cache-2_10-GHz) (http://ark.intel.com/products/53434/Intel-Core-i3-2330M-Processor-3M-Cache-2_20-GHz), (http://ark.intel.com/products/53450/Intel-Core-i5-2430M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_00-GHz)

Use 64bit version of Ubuntu !