Ubuntu8.04 detailed tutorial on hard disk installation

Warning: This article involves hard disk partitioning and formatting. before you install Ubuntu on your computer, make sure to back up your data, to avoid valuable data loss due to uncontrolled unknown factors or incorrect operations during the installation process. Hard Disk installation is a feature of many Linux releases. RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS are the best releases for hard disk installation. However, this does not mean that Ubuntu hard disk installation is complicated. However, hard disk installation should be regarded as one for beginners.

Warning: This article involves hard disk partitioning and formatting. before you install Ubuntu on your computer, make sure to back up your data, to avoid valuable data loss due to uncontrolled unknown factors or incorrect operations during the installation process.

Hard Disk installation is a feature of many Linux releases. RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS are the best releases for hard disk installation. However, this does not mean that Ubuntu hard disk installation is complicated. However, hard disk installation is a relatively "advanced" topic for beginners. Therefore, the structure of this article is different from the previous two articles: "Ubuntu 8.04 for beginners using LiveCD CD installation (full text)" and "Ubuntu 8.04 using AlternativeCD installation tutorial (figure )". This article will provide a detailed introduction to installation preparation. The hard disk installation process is basically the same as that of Alternative CD, so I will not repeat it here, just to mention some notes. If you think it is necessary, you can take a brief look at the Alternative CD installation article. In fact, the entire installation process is very simple as long as you see the installation tips for each step of the installation program. (The same is true for LiveCD installation and Alternative CD installation .), In addition, you can refer to Ubuntu8.04 hard disk installation experience to share.

There may be many reasons to choose hard disk installation: Saving the recording disk; the optical drive is broken/reluctant to use the optical drive; for Fast Installation (the hard disk installation is indeed faster than the CD installation !); Learn hard drive installation skills ;...... For whatever reason, since I chose hard disk installation, I assume that the reader has downloaded the ISO image of Alternative CD. Let's get started!

I. Hard Disk partitioning

The hard disk installation process is similar to the Alternative CD installation process. Therefore, it is not necessary to prepare partitions before installation. However, if the image on the installation disc is located in a large partition where the free partitions need to be divided, some errors may occur during the installation process, therefore, we choose to prepare a SWAP and A/partition required for Linux installation before installation.

There are many graphic interface-based lossless Partition tools in Windows, such as Norton Partition Magic (PQ Magic), Acronis Diskdirect Suite/Acronis Partition Expert, and Paragon Partition Manager. I personally prefer the Acronis series of disk management tools. Readers can choose any handy tool they use. I will use the most powerful partition tool Gparted in Linux as a demonstration of the partition tool. The operations of other partition tools are basically similar. My Gparted is from LiveCD of Ubuntu 8.04 -- this triggers a "chicken, it's a conflict-maybe because the drive is damaged, you cannot use LiveCD to choose to use the hard disk for installation, but you need to use LiveCD for partitioning. But as I said above, I just demonstrate partition operations. As for how readers partition, they have to solve it by themselves.

Go to the LiveCD environment and open Gparted. The following program interface is displayed.

Click Select hard disk and click the "Resize/Move" button on the toolbar to open the "Resize/Move" dialog box. Drag the rightmost handle until the size of the idle partition meets the requirements for Ubuntu installation. The value is 4094 MB. Of course, you can enter appropriate values in the input box below to set the exact size. Click "Resize/Move" to confirm the modification.

Click "Unallocated" partition on the hard disk, and click "New" in the toolbar to create a New partition. We create an Extended partition, which is full of free space. Click "Add" to confirm the modification. (Do you still remember the introduction to "extended partitions" in preparation ?)

Select the New extended partition and click "New" in the toolbar to create a MB Logical partition in the format of linux swap. Click "Add" to confirm the modification.

Create a new logical partition in all the remaining free space. The partition size is full and the format is set to EXT3. Click "Add" to confirm the modification.

Now, the partition editing is complete. Open the "Edit"-"Apply All Operations" menu and Apply All modifications. A dialog box is displayed, prompting you whether to continue partitioning. So far, all the modifications are not actually applied to the hard disk. Therefore, if you find any errors, you can press "Cancel" and re-edit.