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Installing Ubuntu 9.10Step-by-step installation tutorial with screenshots |
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Ubuntu 9.10, also known as the Karmic Koala, arrived exactly on October 29, 2009 and is the eleventh release of Ubuntu OS. We've created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system on their personal
computer. Therefore, it is addressed to people who have just heard about Ubuntu, those who have never installed Ubuntu before and want to test it, but don't know how. The tutorial will make things very simple for you, but if you get stuck somewhere in the middle of the installation and you need help, do not hesitate to use our commenting system at the end of the article! Requirements: You will need the Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop ISO image that corresponds to your hardware architecture (i386 or amd64), and which can be downloaded from here. When the download is over, burn the ISO image with your favorite CD/DVD burning application (Nero, CDBurnerXP, Roxio) on a blank CD at 8x speed. Reinsert or leave the CD in your CD/DVD-ROM device and reboot the computer in order to boot from the CD. Hit the F8, F11 or F12 key (depending on your BIOS) to select the CD/DVD-ROM as the boot device. Select your language when asked... Select the second option "Install Ubuntu," and hit the "Enter" key... Wait for the CD to load into RAM... You will see the wallpaper for a few seconds. When the installer appears, you will be able to select your native language for the entire installation process. Click the "Forward" button to continue... Where are you? The second screen will feature a map of the Earth. Upon the selection of your current location, the time for the final system will adjust accordingly. You can also select your current location from the drop down list situated at the bottom of the window. Click the "Forward" button after you have selected your desired location... Test your keyboard On the third screen, you will be able to choose a desired keyboard layout. But the default automatic selection should work for most of you. Click the "Forward" button when you have finished with the keyboard configuration... Hard disk partitioning You have four options here: 1. If you have another operating system (e.g. Windows XP) and you want a dual boot system, select the first option: "Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup." Editor's Note: This option will ONLY appear if you have another operating system installed, such as Microsoft Windows. Remember that, after the installation, the Windows boot loader will be overwritten by the Ubuntu boot loader! 2. If you want to delete your existing operating system, or the hard drive is already empty and you want to let the installer automatically partition the hard drive for you, select the second option, "Use the entire disk." Editor's Note: This option is recommended for most users who do not have another operating system installed or who want to erase an existing one, for example Windows OS. 3. The third choice is "Use the largest continuous free space" and it will install Ubuntu 9.10 in the unpartitioned space on the selected hard drive. 4. The fourth choice is "Specify partitions manually" and it is recommended ONLY for advanced users, to create special partitions or format the hard drive with other filesystems than the default one. But it can also be used to create a /home partition, which is very useful in case of reinstalling the whole system. Here's how you do a manual partitioning with /home: - Select the "Specify partitions manually (advanced) and click the "Forward" button; - Make sure that the selected hard drive is the right one. /dev/sda is the first physical hard drive. /dev/sdb is the second hard drive in your machine. So, make sure that you know which is the one you want to format! Otherwise, you will lose ALL YOUR DATA on that hard drive; - Let's say that the selected drive is empty (no other operating system or important data on it), but it has some partitions on it. Select each one of those partitions and click the "Delete" button. After a few seconds, it will say "free space". Do this with the other partitions from the selected hard drive, until they're all deleted and you have a single "free space" line; - With the "free space" line selected, click on the "Add" button. In the new window, type 2000 in the "New partition size in megabytes" field and select the "swap area" option from the "Use as:" drop down list. Click the OK button and, in a few seconds, you'll notice a "swap" line with the specified size; - With the "free space" line selected, click on the "Add" button. In the new window, select the "Primary" option, type a value between 10,000 and 50,000 in the "New partition size in megabytes" field and select / as the "Mount point". Click the OK button and in a few seconds, you'll notice an "ext4 /" line with the specified size; - With the "free space" line selected, click on the "Add" button. In the new window, select the "Primary" option, type a value between 30,000 and 50,000 (or whatever space you have left on the drive) in the "New partition size in megabytes" field and select /home as the "Mount point." Click the OK button and, in a few seconds, you'll notice an "ext4 /home" line with the specified size. This is how your partition table should look like. If so, click the "Forward" button to continue with the installation... WARNING: Be aware that all the data on the selected hard drive or partition will be ERASED and IRRECOVERABLE. Click the "Forward" button to continue with the installation... Who are you? On this screen, you must do exactly what the title says. Fill in the fields with your real name, the name you want to use to log in on your Ubuntu OS (also known as the "username," which will be required to log in to the system), the password and the name of the computer (automatically generated, but can be overwritten). Also at this step, there's an option called "Log in automatically." If you check the box on this option, you will automatically be logged in to the Ubuntu desktop. Click the "Forward" button to continue... Are you really ready for Ubuntu? This is the final step of the installation. Here, you can select to install the boot loader on another partition or hard drive than the default one, but it is only recommended for advanced users. If someone is installing to a USB memory stick, as if it was a USB hard drive, then they should know that the installer will mess with their computer's hard disk drive MBR (thanks to Donald for the info on this one!). Therefore, click the "Advanced" button and select the correct drive (the USB stick in this case)... Click the "Install" button to start the installation process... The Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system will be installed... After approximately 10 to 18 minutes (depending on your computer's specs), a pop-up window will appear, notifying you that the installation is complete, and you'll need to restart the computer in order to use the newly installed Ubuntu operating system. Click the "Restart Now" button... The CD will be ejected; remove it and press the "Enter" key to reboot. The computer will be restarted and, in a few seconds, you will see the Ubuntu boot splash and Xsplash... At the login screen, click on your username and input your password. Click Log In or hit Enter... Have fun using Ubuntu 9.10!
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| Comment #1 by: Benjamin on 06 Nov 2009, 21:27 GMT |  reply to this comment | Great article guys, I think this will help a lot of new comers to ubuntu.
I've installed ubuntu 9.10 on 3 systems since it came out and there's only 1 step I needed to do extra:
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
On 3 systems with all different wireless cards I had to run this command or else I didn't have a wireless driver. Hardware Drivers didn't detect any of the wireless cards. |
| Comment #2 by: Indian-Art on 07 Nov 2009, 07:24 GMT | reply to this comment | Very useful, detailed and beneficial article.
Enjoyed it, thanks. |
| Comment #4 by: Pedro Reis on 07 Nov 2009, 12:49 GMT | reply to this comment | I'm new about Linux. How can I install linux in a netbook? I have no CD Drive.
Thanks |
| Comment #4.1 by: Michael Irwin on 31 Dec 2009, 05:19 GMT | Go to the Ubuntu site and download their Netbook Remix version, which is tweaked for smaller screens, etc. At the same place they have info on how to create a bootable USB on a Windows machine. Once you've done that you should be able to get at the BIOS screens of your machine and tell it to look to boot from a USB drive before your hard drive (don't worry - it won't complain if there isn't one), and then try it out! Good luck! |
| Comment #5 by: John X on 08 Nov 2009, 18:46 GMT | reply to this comment | "Editor's Note: This option will ONLY appear if you have another operating system installed, such as Microsoft Windows. Remember that, after the installation, the Windows boot loader will be overwritten by the Ubuntu boot loader!"
So what is your point ? You tell me to "remember" this, but why ? What difference does it make ? Do I need to worry ? Will I never be able to run windows again ?
You say you are writing this for Ubuntu newbies. If you are going to throw out a "caution" like this, you should be prepared to state what the consequences are. |
| Comment #5.1 by: Dreamkin on 14 Nov 2009, 17:17 GMT | It means exactly that. The windows boot loader will be removed and replaced by GRUB.
After that with every reboot you will be presented with the option of booting into Ubuntu (or any other distro you have installed) or Windows. Windows 7 will probably appear as "Vista Bootloader" so do not be confused by that. GRUB still has problems correctly recognizing Windows 7 and Windows 7 uses the Vista bootloader anyway so it isn't entirely wrong.
If you wait for a few seconds and do nothing in the boot menu, GRUB will automatically start booting Ubuntu after a few seconds.
Most of the time this will not cause any problems. However, problems may arise if you decide to get rid of ubuntu entirely by deleting it or removing the partition it's installed in. In layman's terms when you do this, it is likely that GRUB boot loader won't be able to find the data needed for it to function and will crash preventing you from booting into your remaining operating system (Windows in this case). Using system recovery of through the Windows Installation disk won't help either because basicly as far as it's concerned nothing is wrong with the system.
There are several ways to prevent this. The easiest for windows user would be installing a Windows application called EasyBCD prior to deleting linux. Under maintainance (or something... ) use the option called Re-Write MBR... (some something similar... MBR stands for Master Boot Record) This will overwrite the GRUB with the original window bootloader. It should work on both Windows Vista and 7. For windows XP you'll need to use the command fixmbr from the recovery console.
There is no downside to this unless you are using a pirated version of Windows. Since they may make use of a modified bootloader or mbr, re-writing them with a clean MBR may cause your illegally obtained windows to realize it's illegal. What this means is that it will probably revert to Evaluation mode and refuse to download any updates and refuse to work after a while.
But if you are a honest windows user you have nothing to worry about. |
| Comment #5.2 by: Bernard on 18 Dec 2009, 09:35 GMT | I have 2 Disks (700 GB and 1 TB) whereas the 1 Disk is intern, the 2nd is a USB-Disk and is actually mostly for backup purposes there.
There are both about 50% full.
As I installed, I just saw one 1TB volume. It showed, that it wanted to create a partition from about 500GB - which I reduced to 200GB.
I decided to install Ubuntun besides Vista.
After a looooooong time resizing I could go ahead and install Ubuntu 9.10 and saw absolutely no error. It imported nicely the users, the documents, and so on.
As it finished, I took the DVD out and rebooted. Now it comes and asks me for the Rescue Disk. Is this normal?? Does it have something to do with GRUB? And is it Ok to install on an external disk? This should not be the very problem, if you can even install on an USB stick!
Dreamkin writes: "Using system recovery of through the Windows Installation disk won't help either because basicly as far as it's concerned nothing is wrong with the system" I wonder how I can solve my problem so far? Anybody a clue? |
| Comment #6 by: Marius Nestor on 09 Nov 2009, 08:17 GMT | reply to this comment | Hello,
You will be able to run |
| Comment #7 by: firoz munshi on 09 Nov 2009, 09:22 GMT | reply to this comment | Hello,
You will be able to run Windows; it is GRUB which will take precedence over boot.ini. Once you have installed Ubuntu along with Windows on a single harddrive; Ubuntu will be the preferred OS while system boots up. However you can always edit the grub file and do your customization. |
| Comment #7.1 by: harivaradhan on 18 Jan 2010, 02:15 GMT | Hi firoz munshi/all users
//You will be able to run Windows; it is GRUB which will take precedence over boot.ini. Once you have installed Ubuntu along with Windows on a single harddrive; Ubuntu will be the preferred OS while system boots up. However you can always edit the grub file and do your customization. //
my system boots only through ubuntu. how can do my xp boot? how i edit grub file?
please please clarify |
| Comment #8 by: piccoliq on 09 Nov 2009, 13:55 GMT | reply to this comment | I try to install ubuntu 10, but I only have one partition in my vista hard drive, how can I intal is side by side? |
| Comment #8.1 by: Marius Nestor on 09 Nov 2009, 14:34 GMT | Hi,
If you look at the first screenshot on the "Hard disk partitioning" step (http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/large/ubuntu910installation-large_007a.jpg), you will notice that by default, Ubuntu resizes the partition(s) and makes room for the installation. So basically you don't have to do anything, just click Forward at this step... but ONLY if you have enough free space on the Vista hard drive! Take a look at the bottom bar and see if Ubuntu resized your Vista partition!
Good luck! |
| Comment #9 by: Marius Nestor on 09 Nov 2009, 14:39 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi,
Go to a friend with a CD-ROM drive and make yourself a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu 9.10. Here are the basic steps:
1. Boot the Ubuntu 9.10 CD in Live CD mode
2. Insert the USB stick in the PC (make sure it is at least 1 GB)
3. When the desktop appears, go to System -> Administration -> USB Startup Disk Creator
4. Click the "Make Startup Disk" button to create the bootable USB stick.
5. When it's done, remove the USB stick from the PC and insert it in the notebook.
6. Boot from the USB stick and install Ubuntu 9.10
Good luck! |
| Comment #9.1 by: DaveP on 09 Dec 2009, 20:05 GMT | Apart from each time I tried to use USB disk creator in 9.10, it failed to create a disk. Did same on 9.04 and it worked fine, so must be something to do with the first cuts of Karmic, which I am sure will be ironed out after a few weeks. 8.10 and 9.04 created USB startup disks just fine. |
| Comment #10 by: Frederic on 09 Nov 2009, 14:59 GMT | reply to this comment | I remember the day i installed Ubuntu 8.04 for the first time as a complete newcomer.
The only difficult step was to set to set an EXT partiton and the mounting point "/", which i see it's nicely shown in this guide. |
| Comment #11 by: thecommutist on 10 Nov 2009, 11:53 GMT | reply to this comment | Thanks for this helpful install guide. |
| Comment #12 by: Orlando on 10 Nov 2009, 20:01 GMT | reply to this comment | I upgraded my pc from ubuntu 9.04 to ubuntu 9.10 and it was a complete disaster. Please notice what kind a problem can be created after upgrade. I just back to reinstall ubuntu 9.04. You need to test very carefully your new release. |
| Comment #12.1 by: DaveP on 09 Dec 2009, 20:02 GMT | Yes, I have heard as well that some people have problems "upgrading" from earlier versions to Karmic. I have installed 9.10 on 4 physical and 3 virtual machines now from scratch, and the only problem I have had was on an old (6yr+) laptop there was no wireless, and that Stellarium version 0.10.2 doesn't seem to work well with Compiz in 9.10 (although Stellarium themselves have said this is their issue rather than Ubuntu). Other than that, 9.10 is great - faster to boot and shut down, some useful new tools, and a slightly tweaked interface experience. All in all, nothing major over 9.04 though, and I'd be tempted to stick with 9.04 if you have it and are happy. |
| Comment #13 by: bram on 12 Nov 2009, 08:07 GMT | reply to this comment | does the new version (9.10) will solve the sound problem on my compaq 515, i've installed the 9.04 tjht comes with wubi installer and it wont create any sound after installation... |
| Comment #14 by: Thamir on 13 Nov 2009, 13:17 GMT | reply to this comment | I have two physical hard disks (20G & 60G). However, during the installation, it shows both of them as one "sda" with a size of 80G. I would like to make them appears as two physical hard disk because I would like to maintain the data in the 60G hard disk.
Any help how I solve this?
(Note: I would like to remove windows completely) |
| Comment #15 by: Eksekiel on 14 Nov 2009, 14:17 GMT | reply to this comment | I've always used Windows on my PC's, but I thought I should give Linux a chance. I've got two harddisc on my computer and after reformatting both disc, I wanted to install an use Linux Ubuntu 9.10 on the second disc as the primary OS om that disc. I downloaded the .iso file and burned it. But when I restarted my PC with the Ubuntu DVD in the drive and got to the main option screen I just got the errormessage 'I/O Error' when I try to use the option 'Install Ubuntu'. The only option after that is 'Reboot' . Why do I get this message? I've understood that installment of Linux should be piece of cake, but is it? If I can't get an easy solution to this I think I'm heading back to the 'safe' software of Windows. |
| Comment #16 by: Eksekiel on 14 Nov 2009, 15:10 GMT | reply to this comment | I've always used Windows on my PC's, but I thought I should give Linux a chance. I've got two harddisc on my computer and after reformatting both disc, I wanted to install an use Linux Ubuntu 9.10 on the second disc as the primary OS om that disc. I downloaded the .iso file and burned it. But when I restarted my PC with the Ubuntu DVD in the drive and got to the main option screen I just got the errormessage 'I/O Error' when I try to use the option 'Install Ubuntu'. The only option after that is 'Reboot' . Why do I get this message? I've understood that installment of Linux should be piece of cake, but is it? If I can't get an easy solution to this I think I'm heading back to the 'safe' software of Windows. |
| Comment #17 by: Jim Van Damme on 15 Nov 2009, 01:55 GMT | reply to this comment | The only hangup I had was my wife wants to use Windoze . So I edited the boot loader to make it load "The Best Windows Yet" (cough) by default, to make her happy.
Instructions are at https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/dualboot-custom.html |
| Comment #18 by: Douglas Lima on 15 Nov 2009, 14:36 GMT | reply to this comment | i'm a new linux user and the manual partition was very useful for me. |
| Comment #19 by: Jerome on 16 Nov 2009, 16:29 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi, thanks for this fine tutorial nevertheless I probably missed something :
During step 4 "prepare disk space", the installer detects that Windows XP is installed on the disk and that there is no free space and no /dev/sda2 BUT option 1 "Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup" DO NOT apear. I don't want "to erase and use the entire disk"; I can't "use the largest continuous free space" because there is no such free space and when I try to "specify partitions manually" the windows partirion disappears !!???
How can I shrink the windows partition to the minimum and then install Ubuntu ?
Thanks |
| Comment #19.1 by: Marius Nestor on 17 Nov 2009, 11:12 GMT | Jerome, if you don't have free space on the hard drive, you can NOT shrink anything :) Make space on the drive by deleting files you don't use or need anymore (at least 10 GB) and run the Ubuntu installer again. Another alternative is to get a secondary hard drive for the Ubuntu installation, this way you will have both operating systems, each with its own hard drive :) |
| Comment #20 by: Eric on 17 Nov 2009, 05:55 GMT | reply to this comment | Well to be honest i really like the setup, but i have no clue how to install drivers, i have a belkin wireless n usb adapter and i connect to wireless. so i cannot get online on that pc. and i see that i should have a program called wine, which i dont. i am so lost, im about to go back to windows.... |
| Comment #20.1 by: Marius Nestor on 17 Nov 2009, 11:02 GMT | Search Wine in Ubuntu Software Center and install it.
For the driver installation of the Belkin wireless usb adapter search the Ubuntu forums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=302357 |
| Comment #21 by: Q.R on 17 Nov 2009, 21:43 GMT | reply to this comment | what Jerome says is right, I have two partitions each of them is 40G, the first one contains Windows Xp and it only occupies 6G from the whole space of the partition.
The problem is I want to install ubunto without removing windows, BUT the first option
"Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup"
doesnt show in my installation at all, I have free space on the partition but I dont have unpartitioned area, So what am I missing exactly. |
| Comment #22 by: Rolando on 18 Nov 2009, 02:49 GMT | reply to this comment | I only have a 4gb SSD. I need to know if I will still be able to install it. |
| Comment #22.1 by: Marius Nestor on 18 Nov 2009, 15:23 GMT | Hello, I've just tested the Ubuntu installer on a 4GB hard drive and it can be installed! |
| Comment #23 by: Morten on 20 Nov 2009, 02:33 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi! And tnx for a greate guide!
Only one small problem I'v encounterd, some times you need to be in a terminal (but not X) and be logged in as "root" in the setup process you don't setup a "root" account on the computer and therefore it seems like I can't install Nvidia driver on my machine.
( Do I even have to mention that this is my first try whit a non M$ OS)
My driver is in:
"morten@ubuntu-server:~/Downloads"
( the file I'v downloaded is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run")
How do I install it?
Can you point me to another guide maby? (getting frustrated over here)
Cheers |
| Comment #24 by: Marius Nestor on 20 Nov 2009, 09:10 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi! If you are in text mode, under the ~/Downloads and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run file is there, type:
sudo su
(enter your password when asked)
Now you are root! Type:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run
...and follow the on-screen instructions. Be aware that some development packages need to be installed in order to compile things in Ubuntu, such as the build-essential package.
Good luck! |
| Comment #25 by: addal on 20 Nov 2009, 20:27 GMT | reply to this comment | i am using Linux more than two yrs but i connect to internet by plug in LAN cable but
wireless i tried many times but i could not do also real player i could not install and
multimedia of Linux is not good as window |
| Comment #26 by: rahil on 21 Nov 2009, 01:03 GMT | reply to this comment | How about using wubi?
.exe file which will take care of everything. |
| Comment #27 by: hassan on 22 Nov 2009, 14:39 GMT | reply to this comment | hello every one.. i have a oroblem i installed ubuntu but i can be able to installed g++ onn that .. can u plz help me.. i also tried the codo sudu apt-get install g++ but when istallation reaches to 97% it shows a message that failed to download pakages.. what can i dao??/? |
| Comment #28 by: Quazimodo on 24 Nov 2009, 11:26 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi,
New to Linux and I have a fully loaded Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with "the works." Have Win-7 Ultimate pre-installed, partitioned the HDD, installed Karmic (Yo! It's Phatttt!!!).
After the first reboot (GRUB) all appeared fine. Then I decided to enable password login. To my surprise, after logout from that change, it went to a dos-like prompt.
Too un-familiar. How can I get Karmic, from the command line, to boot into the nice graphical log-in as I begin to learn this amazing OS?
Please Help.
~ Quaz |
| Comment #29 by: Miguel on 29 Nov 2009, 22:45 GMT | reply to this comment | I have Vista (hate it by the way) and would like to give Linux a chance. I already have my CD burned, but I can't make my mind. Some of the comments about bootloader kind of scare. To set the record straight, if I install them both Ubuntu will run by default? If I decide to unistall Ubuntu I won't be able to run neither? Can I make Windows run by default?
Please answer this questions |
| Comment #30 by: Digvijay on 30 Nov 2009, 05:45 GMT | reply to this comment | while installing the UBUNTO 9.10 version it is saying that some I/O error. can any one please let me know why this is happening ? |
| Comment #31 by: Jabwd on 30 Nov 2009, 12:55 GMT | reply to this comment | A friend came to me witha 6 year old medion laptop, claiming that the wireless card was broken.
The laptop was running windows xp at that moment, so I thought I install the new version of Ubuntu, really easy and quick.
After reboot when the installation was complete everything worked great (except the graphics card wich needed a driver but ubuntu did an auto install so no problems there) and the wireless card worked perfectly.
I also experienced a speed increase if compared with the windows xp platform that was first on the laptop.. |
| Comment #32 by: NekySerbia on 01 Dec 2009, 07:30 GMT | reply to this comment | I/O error is usually a bad CD burner, or bad .ISO download. It is always good to check md5 sums of downloaded ISO and compare it to the original one, and do that BEFORE burning the ISO.
Also, download from official mirrors, not some torrents as it too can mess up things.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes |
| Comment #33 by: talavren on 04 Dec 2009, 21:41 GMT | reply to this comment | As Jerome (comment #19) mentioned: there is no option 1 "Install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup" DO NOT apear. I don't want "to erase and use the entire disk"
I also have the same problem. How do I partition my hd to have them both xp and ubuntu. Thank you |
| Comment #34 by: josemia on 13 Dec 2009, 00:07 GMT | reply to this comment | I just finished installing Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Latitude D620 notebook, thanks to this guide it was the easiest install ever.
Everything works great, the Wi Fi card was detected right away and I was able to connect within seconds, now is updating the OS.
I am looking forward to use this laptop as my main PC.
I'll be back soon! |
| Comment #35 by: Rajesh on 13 Dec 2009, 15:22 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi. i m new to Unix and Ubuntu. I have windows XP in D: partition. When i tried to install Ubuntu 9.10, i got the error message saying "No root file system is defined'. Please help me in getting out of this error. |
| Comment #36 by: Dashan on 15 Dec 2009, 01:47 GMT | reply to this comment | I am trying to install ubuntu on a specified partition I have allocated for the ubuntu os. I tried to install on the particular partition and upon choosing "ntfs" as the file system type and the mounting option as "/dos", I get "No root file system is undefined". I know I have the option to delete the already specified partition and start over with the install per ubuntu but, I have been reading a bit on the install of various versions and find that in the list there I have no specified root file or even a swap file for my memory. On my HD I have 3 200GB partitions and 1 810GB of free space.
I do "noob" guidance through this install. Please advise. |
| Comment #37 by: Jevon on 15 Dec 2009, 19:31 GMT | reply to this comment | am having a serious problem.... i downloaded the image and did the md5sum check on it which turned out to be the same thing, then burned it on a cd. When i startup with the disk and Check Disk for Errors it tells me there is an error in 1 file, bcuz of this i cant install it and i dont kno wat nex 2 do. this is my third time dl the image from different sources but am getting the same result |
| Comment #38 by: zahid on 17 Dec 2009, 18:18 GMT | reply to this comment | i am facing some problem in installing the software to make my computer smart .
please help me that how to install the software in ubuntu operating system?
waiting for your reply.. |
| Comment #39 by: Dandoussou Abraham on 18 Dec 2009, 12:45 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi,
I want to know what are the caracteristics of the computer(RAM, frequency, ...) needed before installing Ubuntu 9.10 or any anterior version. In fact, I am using a 128MB RAM's computer, but I need to install Ubuntu because I have so many problems of virus when I use Windows SO. Thank you and see next! |
| Comment #40 by: whitetimer on 20 Dec 2009, 10:46 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi ... Well i am about to take my first steps into Ubuntu with a clean install replacing Windows 7 (fed up of the constant virus/spywhere rubbish) so going to try Linux ...
Cant wait, i looked at the Live CD and loved it, so taking a gamble and going for a full install ... Just downloading the iso now and will get started
:o) |
| Comment #41 by: ram on 26 Dec 2009, 18:37 GMT | reply to this comment | gr8 work guys...it helped me lot.....
finally installing ubuntu ending 2 days of my time searching for installation methods... |
| Comment #42 by: Henry paul on 31 Dec 2009, 19:08 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi,
my computer is not booting from the CD.And so I clicked "Demo and Full installation" and I selected "Help me to boot from CD"then finish.But still an error is occuring and CD boot helper cannot be installed.The error message is as follows-
An error occured:
Invalid argument
For more information please log file: c:docume~1paulyt~1locals~1 empwubi-9.10ubuntu1-rev160.log"
When I use "Install inside Windows"the same message is being showed after five minutes of installing
please help me........... |
| Comment #43 by: Erick on 02 Jan 2010, 02:49 GMT | reply to this comment | Excellent helper .. I used it to guide someone over the internet.. The catch was that the other person did not speak english.. A bit difficult but as they said a picture tells more than a 1,000 words. Thanks guys. |
| Comment #44 by: pradi on 03 Jan 2010, 14:09 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi,
I have installed ubuntu 9.10 on my pc.After booting, everytime the login screen appears and the whole system hangs.i have Intel 101DB Motherboard and a P4 HT processor.
Can anyone help?? |
| Comment #45 by: absinthed on 04 Jan 2010, 08:05 GMT | reply to this comment | Hi
This is doing my head in now.I am trying to install 9.1 into my machine. The install gets all the way to the partitioner, then the window appears and it is empty.
However, I see the hdd from gparted, and from the liveDesktop.
This is the same for both 64/32 bit versions of 9.1.
Here is the clincher, I tried to install 8.04, and that installed without problem, and the partitioner identified all the hdd and the install went without issue.
What the hell is happening, I am going loopy trying ot figure this out. Any OBI-wans out there got a solution.
Ta |
| Comment #45.1 by: turbo on 05 Feb 2010, 22:35 GMT | "This is due to a bug with dmraid. Boot into the live desktop using the install LiveCD. Then uninstall dmraid and libdmraid using Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptics Package Manager). Once you have removed that software click on the "Install Ubuntu 9.10" icon on your desktop and all will work fine."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307688
cheers!
(i had exactly same problem, it took some time to catch it, uf) |
| Comment #46 by: Bruno on 05 Jan 2010, 04:22 GMT | reply to this comment | After i select install ubuntu, I wait for the CD to load into RAM but nothing happens it just stays in a black screen. Whats going on? |
| Comment #46.1 by: Marius Nestor on 05 Jan 2010, 07:43 GMT | Probably because of an unsupported video card, such as an old ATI one. |
| Comment #47 by: piglet on 05 Jan 2010, 15:09 GMT | reply to this comment | I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 but I can't seem to get past step 3 in the installation! After choosing the language for the keyboard and clicking forward it just loads forever with the circle icon spinning. Waited for almost 30mins but still no movement. I was still able to select the other languages after clicking forward. Any idea why I'm experiencing this? |
| Comment #48 by: Bruno on 05 Jan 2010, 15:20 GMT | reply to this comment | Is it possible to find dirvers for unsupported video cards. I really want to install ubuntu in my computer but Im not sure if I will be able to find one. |
| Comment #48.1 by: Marius Nestor on 06 Jan 2010, 10:30 GMT | What driver? |
| Comment #49 by: Jim on 06 Jan 2010, 10:47 GMT | reply to this comment | I supose it would be OK if I could get past the third screen. I don't get top the Welcome screen. I am trying to install ubuntu on a HP PC that had win XP on it. After it did not work the first time I changed the HDD partition to linux native. That did not work so I changed it to linux swap. Yeah, I am just shooting in the dark hear. There is no way to format the HDD. Do I even need to format the HDD? What do I start with? A PC with Windows on the HDD or one with nothing. If nothing, do I have to format it. How and what filing system?
Help! |
| Comment #50 by: Michael on 08 Jan 2010, 12:04 GMT | reply to this comment | I'm new to linux ubuntu 9.10 and would like to install directly to my 32GB pen drive. I have successfully booted ubuntu from my pen drive. However, when I select the install option, the software interface wants to partition my C: drive. How can I install ubuntu 9.10 directly onto my 32gb pen drive? So far all the pen drive help I have read has been to make ubuntu boot on a usb flash drive, then install to the C: hard drive. Please help! |
| Comment #50.1 by: Marius Nestor on 08 Jan 2010, 14:11 GMT | Hi Michael, write the ISO image of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 32-bit on a black CD or a CD-RW disc and boot from it. Do the following:
1. Insert your USB stick in the computer;
2. When the desktop apppears, go to System -> Administration -> USB Startup Disk Creator;
3. Format the USB disk;
4. Drag the slider where it says: "When starting up from this disk, documents and settings will be stored in reserved extra space" to let's say 10 GB;
5. Create the USB disk;
6. Reboot the computer and eject the CD;
7. Boot from the USB stick.
All the settings you made will be saved! |
| Comment #50.2 by: Michael on 09 Jan 2010, 02:16 GMT | Marius, this is exactly what I did before. Now, when I boot from my USB pen drive, I see all the same options as if the ISO image is on CD. By this I mean, I can boot without making changes to my current system, or install ubuntu. This is my problem. I want to run the ubuntu install wizard and install ubuntu 9.10 to my usb pen drive, not a dual boot to my C: fixed hard drive. I greatly appreciate any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance for all the wonderful support:>) |
| Comment #50.3 by: Dominik on 16 Jan 2010, 18:46 GMT | Hi Michael,
That's what I'm looking for too and as far as I know, there is only "Marcus's" option available - your pen drive will save changes, it'll just always boot like a usual liveCD/USB (so it will take too much time and that's the problem...).
It doesn't make me happy, so I'll keep searching for another solution, but for now that's all what I know. |
| Comment #51 by: James Liebert on 08 Jan 2010, 21:25 GMT | reply to this comment | This is a welcome resource. I have a major reservation with GRUB as bootloader, however. I've been running 9.10 inside Windows 2K via Wubi and been crippled 4 times by recommended updates accessed through Ubuntu Update Manager, 3 times by an update of so-called GRUB1 to GRUB2, more exactly known as GRUB 1.97~Beta4. January 4, 2010, the 4th time, I installed recommended kernel upgrade 2.6.31.17. Currently, GRUB 1.97~Beta4 is a trouble-frought substitution for the Windows bootloader, which will happen if we install Ubuntu side by side with Windows. There may be a fix, but finding this trustworthy needle in the mammoth haystack of well-meant, amateur, and inconsistent advice is no job for an end-user like me. Beware. |
| Comment #52 by: swapnil......? on 09 Jan 2010, 11:11 GMT | reply to this comment | its nice bro...........wonderful.........
it is really helpful to newcomers.......... |
| Comment #53 by: Vivek on 09 Jan 2010, 22:34 GMT | reply to this comment | Hey, I am rite now installin ubuntu 9.10 but no option is shown for side by side installation.
Please help ... I just stucked at this point ... |
| Comment #54 by: preejith on 14 Jan 2010, 13:56 GMT | reply to this comment | I am having windows 7 in my pc. And I installed Ubuntu 9.10 using ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso (burned it in a cd for installtion.). I am getting the boot loader perfectly with both ubuntu and windows. But where I am facing the issue is, after I select ubuntu to load and it reaches till the welcome screen where I have to enter the password. Once I enter the password correctly and click on the Log In button then after I can see only a blank area (completly black). Waited for around 30mins still no change. The entire screen is blank with only mouse arrow seen. Windows 7 is working fine with no errors. What could be issue? Please provide me a help to solve this. Thank you in advance. |
| Comment #54.1 by: Marius Nestor on 14 Jan 2010, 15:52 GMT | It may be a video card issue. What video card do you have? ATI, Intel, Nvidia, other? |
| Comment #55 by: Kevin on 16 Jan 2010, 07:06 GMT | reply to this comment | I am having the exact same issue. Anyone know the reason for this? |
| Comment #56 by: skinflint on 20 Jan 2010, 16:01 GMT | reply to this comment | Looking for answers to the issues in Comment #s 19, 33, and 36.
I used Gparted to partition my hard drive. Compressed my XP installation and created a partition to install Ubuntu NBR. The Ubuntu partition is FAT32. Whether I mount it or not, when I try to move Forward I get the "No root file system" message.
So do I use the Ubuntu installer to 1) delete the partition into free space, 2) create a small swap partition, 3) create a large Primary partition mounted on "/", 4) create a second Primary partition and mount on "/home"?
Can this be done on the same hard disk where Windows XP lives? Is it necessary to use ext4 instead of FAT32? |
| Comment #57 by: jkloor on 20 Jan 2010, 20:42 GMT | reply to this comment | BOOT PROBLEMS with UBUNTU 9.10
I finally became tired of my Win XP-SP3+Office 2K7 desktop. After a few days of research I realized that best thing I can do is install Ubuntu+Gnome+OpenOffice and other applications.
But, after 3 installations of the Live CD following all the steps Ubunto does not run. The screen remains brown after the logo! I am erasing partitions and using all disk. I have an Intel D845GLLY board with P4-1.8 GHz n 700Mb SDRAM PC133 What can possible be wrong?
Return to Windos is not a choice for me. Kindly request HLP!
Joseph |
| Comment #58 by: green79 on 22 Jan 2010, 03:29 GMT | reply to this comment | I have installed 9.10. First attempts failed, when I selected "install Ubuntu" from the cd boot menu the screen would go blank except for blinking white cursor at the top left of the screen. Next before selecting install I selected F6 and selected "noapic" then the installation proceeded as expected. But after install was completed and computer was restarted Ubuntu would not boot from the hard disk, however it will boot from the cd. I'm using a toshiba A-100 with a celeron m. Obviously I'm new to linux so any advice on a solution to this problem would be appreciated. |
| Comment #59 by: Jan on 23 Jan 2010, 20:57 GMT | reply to this comment | Hello,
I am trying to install Ubutu on a Vaio with Windows Vista. I got to the partition step but do not know how to proceed. What is shown on my screen is similar as the screen shown under 2. above, only it does not show the option "Install them side by side, choosing between them each startup". Also, the top bar only shows 10.5 GB for Windows Vista (loader) (/dev/sda1) and 175.8 BG for Windows Vista (loader) (/dev/sda2). I want to keep Vista but the second option to manually specify the partitions leads me to another screen where I do not know what to do. The option "Install them side by side, choosing between them each startup" seems the best but it i snot shown to me. Who can help me?
Jan |
| Comment #60 by: EasyE on 23 Jan 2010, 22:00 GMT | reply to this comment | I like. It is very shiny similar to Windows 7. I had issues installing from the disk, but after a few tries, I was able to load Ubuntu from the CD, then I clicked the Installed button that is on the desktop. That's how I solved my issue. This is great article. |
| Comment #61 by: abhijeet sathe on 24 Jan 2010, 15:47 GMT | reply to this comment | very interesting!
i like it.
I am having windows 7 in my pc. And I installed Ubuntu 9.10 using ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso (burned it in a cd for installtion.). I am getting the boot loader perfectly with both ubuntu and windows. But where I am facing the issue is, after I select ubuntu to load and it reaches till the welcome screen where I have to enter the password. Once I enter the password correctly and click on the Lo. |
| Comment #62 by: bullygram on 26 Jan 2010, 05:14 GMT | reply to this comment | when i install ubuntu9.10,it is booting up like a live cd.not li an os!
please help me |
| Comment #63 by: Marius Nestor on 26 Jan 2010, 09:02 GMT | reply to this comment | Choose the "Install Ubuntu" when the CD loads... and remove the CD after the installation! |
| Comment #64 by: HsN on 26 Jan 2010, 13:38 GMT | reply to this comment | When i boot using the cd, i select the language English and then select the option Install Ubuntu. Then the black screen with the white Ubuntu logo comes (where you have written "wait for the CD to load into RAM". but after that, i don't get the Welcome screen askig me to select the language. Instead, i just get a black screen, with lots of nonsense words. Please tell me what to do about this. Thanks |
| Comment #64.1 by: Marius Nestor on 09 Feb 2010, 11:00 GMT | Probably you have an unsupported video card (ATI?)... try with an Nvidia one, they are very cheap! |
| Comment #65 by: Timothy B on 27 Jan 2010, 00:09 GMT | reply to this comment | Hello everyone, this will be quite long, so get ready.
I am having trouble partitioning and installing Ubuntu 9.10.
Here is my story:
I have a computer with 2 IDE hard drives.
The slave drive I am certain that it is 60GB.
The other, I am not so sure about, but I have a strong feeling that it is 140GB.
I have partitioned the 60GB HD so that ~29.4 GB has been partitioned, one with a Modified version of XP Professional (Looks and works like W7) and another blank one, where I hoped to install Ubuntu.
The other HD has 1 partition that contains Windows XP Professional, no other partitions or file systems.
I chose 'Test from CD' or whatever at the startup from the CD.
I now want to install Ubuntu. Yep, English, Melbourne, Yep, Yep, blah blah until it comes to the partitioner.
It picks up a "Windows NT/2000/XP Loader" (189.9 GB) at /sda1/
I have no HD capable of holding 189.9 GB worth of data. If the hard drive were 200GB, why does it need to leave 10.1GB unpartitioned aside from the normal 7MB?
I select to do them manually. this is what it says.
/dev/sda/ no type, no size, no mount point, no format?
/dev/sda1/ ntfs, no mount point, 203917MB total, 25606MB used.
/dev/sdb/ same as sda, nothing.
I select sda1, and the bar tells me this:
(][][][][][][][][][][][][][)
[] sda1 (ntfs)
189.9GB
I select sdb, and I get this:
(][][][][][][][][][][][][][)
Nothing.
Selecting sda/ yields the same results as sda1.
What do I do to put Ubuntu on my 29GB Partition? Where is my 29GB Partition? Why does a 209GB and only a 209GB Filesystem appear in "Computer" when I have 2 hard drives? Please help!!
NOTE: (I just worked out that perhaps it is reading both drives together. I open it up in Computer, and all I get is my Windows XP Pro installation on my 140GB hard drive. No 60GB hard drive.) |
| Comment #66 by: Steve on 27 Jan 2010, 15:39 GMT | reply to this comment | This would probably be a good guide if the Ubuntu installation actually worked as advertised, but unfortunately it appears that it does not and this article does not address what do do when things go wrong, which apparently happens quite frequently judging by the responses I have seen.
In my case, when I attempted to install Ubuntu, I selected the language and then on the next screen I selected (install Ubuntu). Eventually I ended up at an orange screen where everything froze up. It never got as far as the welcome screen. I attempted several times restart the install, but now I no longer am given the option to "Install Ubuntu". The only option offered is to "try Ubuntu without any change to your computer" which is not a viable option since I am trying to install to a blank hard drive. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
| Comment #67 by: Sean on 01 Feb 2010, 11:37 GMT | reply to this comment | After installing Ubuntu 9.10 beside Windows Vista, is there a way to make my Ubuntu partition larger? |
| Comment #67.1 by: Marius Nestor on 01 Feb 2010, 12:56 GMT | Yeah, I think so... try with Partition Magic. You must have a free (empty) space on your drive for this... |
| Comment #68 by: ray on 01 Feb 2010, 16:10 GMT | reply to this comment | What you're missing is probably the fact that you have free space within your NTFS partition but that partition fills the space on the drive. |
| Comment #69 by: sanchit on 02 Feb 2010, 23:54 GMT | reply to this comment | i installed ubentu 9.1 in my laptop but i have no idea about wireless setting
i want settings and tutorial |
| Comment #70 by: avnish on 03 Feb 2010, 08:53 GMT | reply to this comment | i have just installed this ubuntu on my pc it is quite useful but the problem is that i cant make broadband connection and the sound and movie problem
please help me in this way |
| Comment #71 by: ardhi on 06 Feb 2010, 05:26 GMT | reply to this comment | I had already downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 and burn it then i tried to install it in my windows 7 many times but still got error. I installed it in my new partition let's say partition U:(15BG) neither in C: or D:
Could anybody solve this? |
| Comment #72 by: udhaya on 07 Feb 2010, 23:49 GMT | reply to this comment | i have just installed my ubuntu 9.10, while trying to upgrade and install software after downloading. it says NOT ENOUGH MEMORY. i installed ubuntu by the side of windows xp.. i could not able to find in which partition, ubuntu was installed.
what should i do to change the installed dive inorder to get some free space.......... |
| Comment #73 by: venkat on 09 Feb 2010, 09:58 GMT | reply to this comment | i have win xp and ubuntu 8.04. i want to upgrade to ubuntu 10. is it possible without loosing my data in the disk?
pls clarify. |
| Comment #73.1 by: Marius Nestor on 09 Feb 2010, 11:20 GMT | Upgrading your Ubuntu installation has NOTHING to do with your Windows installation!
Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 will NOT lead to data loss! After the upgrade process, your files will be intact!
The upgrade process is done by executing the following command in a terminal or by hitting ALT+F2 key combination:
update-manager -c
Good luck! |
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