Countermeasures for installing Ubuntu12.04

Preparatory work

Installing the Ubuntu system to the hard drive, there are some preparations to be made:

2GB and above space u disk

Universal-usb-installer (self-starter Linux u disk creation tool)

Ubuntu System Mirroring

2GB and above space u disk

If you need to install Ubuntu in the hard disk, the general use of the system is the use of CD-ROM or u disk installation, because now U disk access is more convenient, basically who have a USB disk can be used at hand. Here need a no less than 2GB blank u disk, recommended in the use of U disk before the important data backup.

Universal-usb-installer

Universal USB Installer (Universal USB installer) is a bootable Linux U disk creation tool that can be selected from a large selection of Linux distributions to install on your USB drive. Universal USB Installer is easy to use, just select from the Linux release version of the ISO file, and connect the U disk, click "Install" can be. Other features include continuous storage (if available), format the U disk in FAT32 format (recommended) to ensure a clean installation. After the installation is complete, you will have a Linux version of the boot U disk installed.

Universal USB Installer has a lot of downloads on the Web, and the version number in this paper is 1.9.5.2

Ubuntu System Mirroring

Ubuntu has three versions, the desktop version (Desktop Edition), the server (Edition), the Internet version (Netbook Remix), where the desktop version can be used. Ubuntu releases a new version every 6 months, and each version has a code and version number, including LTS is a long-term support version, so the download is also lts.

So far, Ubuntu's latest LTS version is the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, but there's certainly a lot of problems with the new version, so consider downloading the history version, which I installed here is the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Select the appropriate version in the open source mirror, find the desktop version of the download ISO image, you can find a very many download links. Where i386 represents a 32-bit operating system, AMD64 represents a 64-bit operating system.

So if you want to install the 32-bit Ubuntu operating system, you can download Ubuntu-12.04.4-desktop-i386.iso, and if you want to install the 64-bit Ubuntu operating system, Can download Ubuntu-12.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso, click to download, about 700 MB.

Make an Ubuntu Startup disk

Run Universal USB Installer and click the button. Then follow the prompts to select the Linux version that you need to install, mirror files, and make a mirrored USB drive. The following figure:

Finally click on the button, then the software will automatically help us to write the image file to the U disk, the last hint to complete.

Install Ubuntu to hard drive

Once you've made your startup disk, you can officially start installing the Ubuntu system. To get your computer to boot from the U disk, there are two ways, one is to modify the boot sequence in the BIOS, and the other is to press a function key (depending on the model, usually F2), and then choose from which to start, here is not explained in detail.

When you enter the USB disk, you can choose to preview or install it directly. Here choose the direct installation, the following view, for English is not very good can choose Chinese, click to install. The following steps follow the wizard step-by-step, and you will be prompted to restart your computer after the installation is complete.