So, when your computer is turned off you're gonna turn it on, and you're gonna have
to press the key to enter into the BIOS boot menu. I'm working on an HP laptop
here, so my key is F9. So, when you hit the power key, you're gonna need to repeatedly tap
this key to make sure that you get it at the right time. It's usually a small
window of opportunity there to get it, so. I'm going to just tap on the F9 key, and
I'll be presented with this, you should have something similar. Now if you're on an
EFI system that's great. Make sure you choose the USB drive UEFI and hit
enter. So, you can use your up & down key then hit enter when you select the
correct device, and this is gonna let us boot off the hard disk. So, click try Ubuntu
to start up, it should be relatively quick.
We're now booted into Ubuntu. So, select the, double click the install Ubuntu icon on
the desktop. When it opens the installer select your language, and when you're
ready hit continue. You're going to want to connect to a WiFi network unless
you're connected through ethernet. I've already connected to a network so I'm
not going to do this, but connect to your network so that you can download updates
while installing, want you get the most fresh packages from the repositories. You
see these big check marks telling us that we're all good to go,
you're also gonna want to check download updates while installing, and also install
third-party software. I've already got these checked, you want to make sure
they're checked, if they're not checked, check them. You don't need to install
thirty third party software, all this allows is for playing MP3 files and
other proprietary file types. So, when you're ready here, hit continue, and this
next bit is gonna take a little bit because it's scanning our hard drive. So,
when you see this screen, it's gonna prompt you to install Ubuntu alongside Windows,
were not going to do that, we're going to manage the partitions by ourselves
manually, and that's gonna give us a little bit more control. So, select
something else at the bottom, and then hit continue.
That's going to scan the disc again, and you're gonna see something entirely different here.
Alright, this is our Windows partition, we can tell by first it's formatted as NTFS,
and also the size of the drive. This is my free space. What you're gonna wanna do
is right click on the NTFS file system. Hold on a second, I just got to remove this two
finger scroll, much better. This is the EFI partition, we're going to focus
on the Windows partition right now, you're gonna need to shrink this in order to
get the free space. So, click on this, and click change down at the bottom, and
you're going to just reduced the size of this. Windows does take up quite a bit of
space, and the applications on it, so I recommend leaving this relatively high. I've
got about 500 gigabytes I use on my Windows partition, and I find that's
comfortable. So, once you've done this, hit OK, and you're gonna see the disc rescan,
and it's going to show you that you've got free space after your Windows partition. So, we now need to
set up a few partitions, so click the free space and the plus sign. And the
first partition we're gonna be creating is a swap area, which acts sort of like RAM, but
on the hard disc. So, in the size of the swap area, make it about double the amount of RAM
that you've got. When it refreshes here we see our swap area we just created,
with the free space after it.
Now we're good to create our main partition of the installation of Ubuntu. So, make
sure you use Ext4 journaling file system, and set the mount point to a
"/" and hit OK. And basically the forward slash just means the entire
operating system, the home directories, applications, configurations are all
gonna be installed to this partition. Now Linux gives us a little bit more
flexibility that we're not going to really go in-depth with right now, but
you are able to create two different partitions. One for the "/" the
main partition, and then you can also create another one, set the mount point to
/home, and that's gonna mean that all your user directories are
stored on that partition, and this makes sense for upgrading and installing
different versions of Linux. Because the home directory will always stay intact, you won't
need format every time you install Linux, and you can be install Linux over the root
partition. So, now that we're set up here, we're basically good to go. The device
for the bootloader is important. If you're not running an EFI system you
need to leave this to dev/sda, and what that means is that the bootloader
is going to be written to the very first sectors of the hard disk, which is where non EFI
hard drives store their bootloaders with Windows. So, it will replace the
Windows partition, or Windows bootloader, and replace it with grub which is Linux
bootloader, but it will also give you an option through that installation of the
bootloader, to boot into Windows. Every time you boot up your computer, your're gonna
see boot in to Linux, or boot in to Windows. Right now I'm working with an
EFI hard disk and hopefully you are too. Every computer released in the last few
years are now EFI, and EFI is great. It's a way where you can,
you can better manage dual or tri booting different installations, or operating
systems on your hard disk, and what this does is if you've got an EFI partition, you can notice
mine selected in the area above is sda2, but the type is EFI, and system
says Windows boot manager. Where we're using an EFI disk, we are going to install
the EFI files for the bootloader on the existing EFI partition, which is sda2. So,
when we're already here, you can now click Install Now. It's gonna tell you
that it's going to make these changes, they're gonna be permanent, and you may lose data if
you've done something wrong, so please make sure you do this all correctly. It
will leave your Windows partition intact because you're not formatting it, you're just shrinking it, and
you're creating a couple new partitions. So, when you review these changes hit
continue, and its gonna install the operating system now to our hard disk.
And the installation procedure is exactly the same as it was in VirtualBox.
So you're gonna choose your location & time zone first, so here we're going to
select our keyboard layout. I am using
English US keyboard layout, so I'm just going to leave it and hit continue. Here we're going to
create our user account, username and password, and you do have a few options,
also, to log in automatically, require password, you can set this however you
want. I like to require my password to login. So, just
continue and now you're presented with this beautiful slideshow of everything
Ubuntu can do, not everything but a few things. We're gonna dive in to more of these things
in the future, but right now I'm gonna pause this recording, and I'll be back
after it installs because it does take about 10-15 minutes. It should tell you that
the installation has been a success, and you're now free to either continue testing on the
USB Drive, or restart now. You can do whatever you like, just if you're going
to continue testing, the way you reboot is in the top right hand corner
select the gear icon to shut down.