Allrighty, then.
Ubuntu got all started up, running from the CD-ROM. Right now, this is the operating system running from something called a “Live-CD” this means that no changes have been made to the computer I am using. Everything is running from the CD-ROM.
I would like to install this to the hard drive, and make it the permanent, primary OS pf the computer.
Right there on the desktop of my Ubuntu Desktop is an icon labelled “Install”. Lets just press that and see what happens.
At first, a whole bunch of nothing. The CD-ROM spins up, lets give it a minute on this old-timey machine. …
OK. Finally, A screen appears titled “Install”. How helpful. I’d give you screen caps, but, right now I’m live blogging this from from a different machine, don’t ya now. I don’t think I can blog and install concurrently from the same machine. That would be quite a trick!
OK. First option. Select language, “English”
Tsk-Tsk ubuntu. This screen is bigger than the (apparent) resolution of this computer. The continue button is off the bottom of the screen.
Move the window around…. OK. Good. The button is labeled “Forward”. Forward indeed.
Apparently this is Step one of 6.
Next step is Select a city in your Time Zone. What luck NYC is in my time zone and the default choice. I also fixed the Time to reflect my current time. (which apparently you indicate the time in Military Time. OK now plus twelve is…. got it. )
Next step is to indicate keyboard layout. American English it is.
Next step is to tell Ubuntu who I am. Give a name, a user name, a password, and indicate what you would like the computer to be called if it were to be seen on the network (username-ubuntu in my case). Forward!
Next step is to tell Ubuntu how to set up the hard disk. In my case I will erase the entire disk as I want this to be Ubuntu only. Apparently If I were so inclined I would also do this manually — I guess for dual booting with another OS? Dunno. Erase the entire disk, please, Ubuntu. Forward.
Last step is to confirm everything I just entered.
It says “the following partitions are going to be formatted:
Partition #1 of /dev/hda as ext3
Partition #5 of /dev/hda as swap.”
I wonder what that means. Oh, I see, It think.
Alright. Cross fingers, hold nose, jump in. …. Click “Install”
A progress bar indicating “Installing system” appears. Looks like this could take a while….
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