It might take a little bit longer to load in a virtual machine, as opposed to
actually booting the ISO image on your hard drive.
That's a process we will cover later, but for right now we're gonna stick with
VirtualBox and it is a bit laggy, so I apologize for that.
So, here is the loading screen. It's very minimalistic running in VirtualBox. It
is quite a bit different but again we'll get into that, so. Just gonna wait for it
to boot. It's showing a warning message there that's not really important,
because it is going to load. Now, once it does load the interface we're gonna see that
it gets scroll bars here. You can scroll up and down, or left & right, we don't want that. That's
going to make it difficult to navigate the machine. So, what I'm going to do is
go to view, go full screen mode. Now, in full screen mode if you want to exit you've
got this little menu down at the bottom that you can access. You can un-maximize
it, you can entirely close it if you want to. We're just gonna let it load up the
installation. Now, when loading the installation, you can try it first, or you
can just install it straight to the disc, or the virtual disk in this case. So, I click
"Install Ubuntu."
For the purpose of this video I don't want the installation to take too long,
so I'm not going to download updates while installing, but I am going to
install third-party software. If you're using this on your personal machine and
not a server, you're probably gonna want this because this allows you to play MP3,
MP4 videos, and a host of other file formats that it will recognize with
proprietary third-party software. So, we're going to hit continue. So, running in
VirtualBox, it's gonna be safe to erase disk and install Ubuntu. It's
not going to erase your entire hard drive, it's going to use the 20 GB
virtual hard drive that we have predefined in previous steps. However, I
want to show you a little bit more about the partitioning that we're gonna be
again diving it to in a later video, but for right now it's a good idea to have a bit of
knowledge. So, select something else,
hit continue, and this is our virtual disk drive. It's called "sda" and what we're gonna
do is create a new partition table, because it's a fresh
hard drive. Hit continue on that message and we've got 21,000 MB's
of free space. Now, we're gonna create a partition which is going to service a
swap area.
Now, swap space is basically like extra RAM that's, I forgot to resize that let me
change this here, I'm gonna delete it and start again. So, this is our free space, create a
swap drive, so in the use as drop down, select swap area,
change this to about 5 GB''s. That should be fine and hit OK. So, swap space serves
as sort of extra random access memory that is not on the RAM, but it's actually
on the hard drive. So, it's a bit slower than RAM, and it uses it for different
reasons, and it's necessary. So, on an actual installation I like to set that to about
8-16 GB's, but since we're working with limited space here so I'm gonna make it
5 GB's. Now once you get that created you're gonna see that the free
space is now down here, and we've got 16 GB's left. So, hit the plus sign down
here, we're going to use it as "Ext4 journalizing file system," that's just the
file system type. If you drop that down you've got all sorts. You can use the old
FAT32 & FAT16, we're going to stick with this. This is the best option to
choose when running Linux. It's really fast and the mount point, we're gonna set that to a
"/", and what that is gonna tell the installation is that we want to
use this partition that we're creating right now, the 16 GB partition as
the entire file system. So, in Linux, "/" represents the route, and
if I wanted to set this to my home partition, which is a specific partition
for user files, I can actually type home, reduce that size, and then use another
partition for the route. We will get more into that.
This is pretty flexible, so I'm just going to install everything to this partition and
hit OK. The "device for boot loader installation" typically we don't need to
touch that at all, Ubuntu is pretty smart with determining where to install the
boot loader. Now we're installing this in legacy mode, not UEFI. I you've heard
of UEFI, it's an awesome technology to use when dual booting multiple operating
systems, but as for this demonstration or in VirtualBox, we;ve only got one.
So, it's going to install it in a legacy mode, and the boot loader is going to be
written to the very first sector of this disk drive. So, when you're ready to move
forward and you've got something that looks similar to this, hit "Install Now." This
is going to basically ask you, are you sure you want to make these changes,
because everything is going to be lost for any partitions that you format, which are these two here.
Yes, we want to do this.