Since the majority of use of this home computer will be browser based (and since soon I believe a great deal of applications will be browser based) I figured that there was nothing to stop me giving it a go. Belkin and Dynamode wireless adaptersīackground: Since I can neither afford the luxury of an Apple OS or stand any longer the bloated and slow Windows I thought it was about time to try out Linux on a computer at home. The operating system sees partitions as individual drives.Ephemera Problem: Wireless USB adapter doesn’t work on Ubuntu. This lets you divide a physical hard drive into different partitions. The next screen will allow you to create your own partition table and logical drives. If you’d rather create your own hard drive partitions, click Something Else. Since it’s still being tested, avoid this setting on mission-critical production systems.
Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security: This will encrypt the drive’s contents.It’s much like an enhanced version of the gparted tool. This is a tool for dynamically managing different virtual drives on your system. Use LVM with the new Ubuntu installation: LVM stands for Logical Volume Management.Use this to specify your own disk partitions or set other advanced options: If you go this route, skip ahead to the next step.Īdvanced users may want to edit Advanced Features. You can wipe the hard drive clean prior to installing Ubuntu by clicking Erase disk and install Ubuntu. Next, you’ll be presented with an Installation Type dialog. Your system should start loading the Ubuntu live disc menu. For a DVD, the entry will usually have DVD or Optical in the name. Once you see your boot menu, use the arrows to pick the Ubuntu media to boot from. Below is a list of common boot keys associated to a brand: AsusĤ.
The boot menu key may be different depending on your computer manufacturer. To manually configure the boot order, tap the boot menu key about once or twice per second as soon as the computer powers on.
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