Linux--u Plate Mounting Ubuntu12.04

Objective

Recently has been studying the development of Android kernel driver, although the use of VMware virtual machine can be more convenient development, but for the development of environmental hardware requirements are relatively high, if used for development, inefficient, so consider using a separate PC to load the Linux environment for Development, Here's the selection of Ubuntu, because Google testing Android source code is used by Ubuntu. So if you are working on Android's underlying driver development, it is highly recommended to use Ubuntu. This blog on the Ubuntu system using a USB drive to install to the hard disk, for detailed explanation, the use of the Ubuntu image version is Ubuntu12.04.

The main content of this blog:

1. Preparatory work
2. Making a Startup disk
3. Install Ubuntu to hard drive

Preparatory work

To install the Ubuntu system to the hard drive, there are some preparations to do:

1. USB flash drive with more than 2GB space
2. Universal-usb-installer (self-booting Linux USB drive creation tool)
3. Ubuntu System Image

USB flash drive with more than 2GB space

If you need to install Ubuntu on the hard disk, the general way is to use the system CD-ROM or USB stick installation, because now the USB flash drive is more convenient, basically who will have a usable USB stick on hand. This requires a blank USB flash drive of not less than 2GB, it is recommended to backup the important data in the U disk before use.

Universal-usb-installer

The Universal USB Installer (Universal USB installer) is a self-booting Linux USB drive creation tool that can be selected from a large selection of Linux distributions to be installed on your USB flash drive. Universal USB Installer is easy to use, just select the ISO file from the Linux distribution, and the attached USB drive, click "Install". Other features include a continuous save (if available) to format the USB drive in FAT32 format (recommended) to ensure a clean installation. Once the installation is complete, you have a self-starter USB flash drive with a Linux version installed.

Universal USB Installer Online Download a lot of version, this blog is described in the version number is 1.9.5.2, in my csdn material provides download, convenient direct download.

Universal USB Installer: Click to download.

Ubuntu System Image

Ubuntu is available in three versions, desktop Edition, server Edition, Internet version (Netbook Remix), which is available on the desktop. Ubuntu releases a new version every 6 months, and each version has a code name and version number, and LTS is a long-term support version, so it's also lts for download.

Until now, Ubuntu's newest LTS version is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which can be downloaded directly from the official website: click to download.

However, the latest version of the must have a lot of problems, then you can consider the download history, I installed here is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. You can consider downloading from a variety of open source image stations, which provide some mirror stations:

• NetEase Open Source Mirror station:.
• Sohu Open Source Mirror station:.

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

So if you want to install 32-bit Ubuntu OS, you can download Ubuntu-12.04.4-desktop-i386.iso, if you want to install 64-bit Ubuntu OS, You can download ubuntu-12.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso, click to download, about 700 MB.

Make an Ubuntu Startup disk

Run the Universal USB Installer and click the <i agree> button. Then follow the prompts to select the Linux version you want to install, the image file, and the USB flash drive to make the image. Such as:

Finally click the <Create> button, then the software will automatically help us to write the image file to the USB flash drive, the last prompt to complete.

Install Ubuntu to hard drive

Once you've made your startup disk, you're ready to start installing the Ubuntu system. To get your computer to boot from a USB stick, there are two methods, one is to modify the boot sequence in the BIOS, and the other is to press a function key when booting (the specific model, usually F2), and then choose from where to start, here is not explained in detail.

After booting into the USB flash drive, you can choose to preview or install directly. Here choose to install directly, such as the following view, for English is not very good can choose Chinese, click <install ubuntu> installation. Follow the steps in the wizard to complete the step-by-step process, and you will be prompted to restart your computer when the installation is finished.