Having problems with breaking up with windows but still want to have an affair with Linux? Well not to sound like the love doctor but, just make a dual boot system . It is a lot easier and no divorce papers.

Minimum Requirements:
For a PC,at least 128mb of ram, 1.8 gb of disk space
For a server, at least 64 mb of ram and 350 mb of disk space.

Step One
(There will be no images on this tutorial because i don’t have a digital camera and i can’t take screen shots while installing Unbuntu)

Make sure you do your homework on this people, as I am finding out it is a hard transition, even if it is Ubuntu.I had to reinstall it again becasue I crashed it trying to bring my music in.

Step two

Go to the Ubuntu and figure out what you want, either the live cd that emulates itself on your computer via a cd or the full OS, both are available for download. Also you can have a Ubuntu or 5 Cd’s shipped to your house, (shipping takes like 4 weeks though) care of Shipit.

Step three
If you download Ubuntu then you just need to burn it to a cd and there ya go, proceed to next step.
If you have it shipped, then just wait and wait and wait.

Step Four
Once you have the Ubuntu cd in your possession. Figure out how to get to your BIOS and change the boot settings, look toward Google for this help. Set your computer to boot from the CD first.

Step Five
Now the Ubuntu installer has a partitioner on it but i like to do things different. I downloaded Partition Magic and dedicated 14 GB on my slave drive to Ubuntu, (BTW if you are wondering how to do all this, like partition and so on, please stop reading this and go research it, right now is prolly not the best time for you to try linux). The only reason i did this was because my slave is the drive that contains my music and I have lost a lot of music before so now I am smarter, this way it couldn’t touch my partition with the music on it.

Step Six
With the slave drive split up, insert CD, restart the computer and get ready to start installation. If set up right, it will start the partitoner up and you will see your partition, if you know what you are doing you can do a manual configure, not recommended tho. I would say do an automatic that way it formats it and creates a swap.

(swap is the virtual memory for linux, it takes i think 600 and some megabytes of the drive).

After initial installation, take out the CD and let Ubuntu install the remaining packages, or if you don’t want to, you just have to keep the cd in, so that it can get the files off of it everytime you want to use Ubuntu

Once you have your swap and partition ready, it does the rest just sit back and relax.

Step Seven
After Ubuntu is done installing all the files, it will ask is for the network name, chances are though you aren’t going to use this on the network. if you do, then you know how to set up networks so call it whatever you want, (mine is coxII)

Step Eight
it will ask for a user name, please make sure that it is all lowercase or ubuntu will yell at you. Next it will ask for a password, you have to put one in, sorry and confirm.

Step Nine
That is it, it starts up and you enter your user name and password and you are ready to rock out with your new Ubuntu out.

*note: when you start up your system from now on you will have 10 seconds to pick an O,S either Ubuntu or something else.*