hey what's up everybody this is Jay and welcome to my tutorial for installing Ubuntu 14.04 on your computer in this video is primarily geared towards beginners perhaps you're someone who has heard of Linux or a boon to your curious want to check it out and feel that maybe a video walkthrough would benefit you if that's the case then this is a good video for you or perhaps you have a Windows XP computer and you're concerned that Microsoft isn't releasing security updates for it and you want to prolong its life in most cases Ubuntu is a good way to do that and if that's the case this video is for you the assumption made in this video is that you want to wipe your current computer's hard disk and have a boon to take over this is not a dual boot tutorial I already have a dual boot tutorial somewhere on my channel so if that's what you want to do I would look for that video instead so anyway let's go ahead and get started the first thing you want to do of course is download Ubuntu so open up your browser and what and you want to go to this site WWN to comm now depending on when you are watching this video this page might look different they do change their homepage from time to time but just look for the download button here just click on it and click on a boon to desktop and it's going to bring you to this page right here where it wants you to select between the 64-bit or the 32-bit version and there's also a Mac version as well I have not personally tested but basically if you're using a PC your choice is between 32-bit or 64-bit and you don't want to just go ahead and click the download button unless you know that your computer is able to handle a 64-bit operating system depending on how old your computer is it may or may not be compatible with 64-bit now generally speaking any computer made in the last five or six years for the most part is going to have no problem with a 64-bit version of Ubuntu if using a netbook you probably do not want to use the 64-bit version go with a 32-bit version instead if your machine is older than a Intel core2 you probably want to go with a 32-bit version some processors older than the intel core to support 64-bit but it's beyond the scope of this tutorial to give you a full list of which versions of your processors out there support 64-bit which ones support 32-bit now generally speaking if you only have you know less than 3.6gigabytes of RAM and you don't feel like you're ever going to upgrade it go with a 32-bit version if you have more than 3.5 gigabytes of RAM then go with the 64-bit version as long as your computer was made in the last four or five years and you're generally okay now I'm going to go with a 64-bit version I already know that my machine is compatible with that so I click download and it's going to bring you to this page basically asking for a donation I'm not going to do that in this tutorial so to bypass this just click not now take me to the download now of course if you do like Ubuntu and find it helpful it's recommended to of course donate but anyway I'll click this button take me to the download and then it's going to start downloading this is a big file it could take a while to download and that's okay you could download this and then come back to the tutorial when your download is done I'm going to click cancel though because I've already downloaded it I've downloaded the 32-bit and the 64-bit version to show you the difference in the file names you see I have both downloaded here so basically what you will need to do is create a bootable media with the ISO file that you have downloaded in this video it's outside the scope to show you how to do that so I'm going to give you some general pointers if you have a you know a DVD drive on your computer then you'll probably want to burn this onto a DVD it's too big to fit onto a CD so to do that the reason why I say it's beyond the scope of this video is because CD and DVD burning saw where programs are all different I can't show you how to do this on each and every single one of them so basically what you're looking for is to open the DVD burning application that you use on your current machine and look for an option that says burn ISO do not click the data option and and think that burning you know saving the this file to a data disc is going to do anything because it's not you want the burn ISO option so that's the one that you should choose and it'll ask you for a file so you just give it the one that you download it and click burn and it's going to create a bootable DVD now let's say for example that you don't even have a DVD drive there is a way to download our you know to convert this ISO to a bootable flash drive that you can use I'll put a link to that in the in the description for this video so if you don't have a DVD drive on your computer then you know you'll still be able to follow along it doesn't matter if you boot from a flash drive or from a DVD it'll look the same the only difference is how you get there so on your machine every machine is different a lot a lot of computers out there f12 or similar will get you into the boot menu when you first start your computer then you would select your USB flash drive you created or the DVD that you burn depending on which one you decided or needed to go with and I'm going to go through the installation right now I'm going to basically use this I'm going to use VirtualBox to show you because it's probably the only way I can record the steps and you can see the entire process so we could just pretend that I'm booting from a DVD from you know on my local computer so excuse me what I'm going to do is just click start here and this is going to bring up and I'm going to press enter here you might have noticed a little icon showed up you didn't have to press Enter I just wanted to show you something if you press enter it just gives you some more options so I'll press enter for English from a language here and these are some extra options you may or may not need this by default if you did not press enter like did is just going to try to go to the first option try Ubuntu without installing that's what I recommend you do but the reason why I brought this up is because I highly recommend that you do a memory test on your machine will just show you if you have like bad sticks of RAM which you know can happen and Linux doesn't work very well if you have bad memory obviously Windows doesn't either but when Linux and Windows handles bad memory chips differently so you may have bad memory sticks and just not know it but generally speaking this test memory will run forever it never stops so if you don't see any errors come up in like five minutes then you're probably okay just hit escape and then your machine will reboot but anyway if you're ready to continue or if you you know just bypassed and didn't even press Enter when you saw that little icon appear just press ENTER on try boon to without installing either way you'll end up going to the same place and this is going to take a minute to show up I want to mention that running a boon to off the CD or excuse me DVD is slower than it would be on you know if it was installed on your hard disk so you might notice that it's kind of sluggish and that's okay running in a virtual virtual machine as I am it's also going to make it run a little bit slow as well anyway so when you first start up Ubuntu after you boot it from the flash drive or the DVD it's going to boot right into the operating system and it's ready to use right now it's going to show you you know a list of keyboard shortcuts that are very helpful for you to learn if you want to you don't need it but it's pretty cool that they showed this this is new with a Bluetooth 14.020but I'll go ahead and close it now the first thing you want to do before you commit to installing this on your computer is find out how well this runs obviously this I mean this is a live environment so no changes that you make here are going to be saved unless you actually do go through the install and this is the icon to start the installation process right here but before you do that just make sure that everything works because you certainly don't want to install a bun too if it's not going to work on your machines for example if your computer has a wireless card this here is the networking icon it might show like a wireless icon if you have a wireless card or shows the two arrows here if you have a network cable plugged in as you know is simulated in VirtualBox but if you have a wireless card click on this icon and make sure that your wireless network shows up and go ahead and connect to it and you know you'll see it listed so you just click on it and then type in your password if that works then good you're connected to your network just bring up Firefox let's click on it and just go to a random web page doesn't matter just make sure you can get out to the Internet because you certainly don't want to install Ubuntu to find out that your machine has a non-supported network card and then you can't get to the Internet excuse me then that would be pretty awkward it'd be kind of hard to fix that so just make sure you can get out to the Internet check out make sure your connection is listed here if you have a network cable plugged in you should already be ready to go so just have take a minute play around with the interface you know open some programs see how things work and when you're ready to go it and commit to actually wiping out your computer click the install button right here on the desktop just double click on it and it's going to take a minute because this is a CD excuse me DVD running in a virtual environment and if you're using the DVD I bet your DVD is probably spinning up and quite loud right now and here it is this is the first part of the installation process basically it just wants you to select your language whatever your primary language is just go through the list find it and select it mine is English so I will leave the default as that and click continue and here it's just going to make sure that your hard drive is big enough I guess 6.4 gigabytes is the let is at least that you can have it doesn't have to be connected to the Internet it does have to be connected to the internet to download updates because you have an option here download updates install you know the mp3 plug-in which is needed to play mp3s I recommend you to click both and that and you can only do this if you have an internet connection now I'm not going to have either one selected because it's just going to make the tutorial take longer but I recommend that you select both of these and once you've done that click continue and here we have a choice on how we want to set up the hard drive we could just erase the disk and install Lubuntu that'll basically blow away your drive and start the install process if you do this and have this selected and then click install your hard drive is deleted right then all everything on your drive I mean obviously I assume you backed up all your important files before you even started this process but for me I'm going to show you my preferred approach to installing Ubuntu so for this tutorial I'm going to click something else because I want to set up the hard drive manually there's nothing wrong with clicking erase disk and just doing that the choice is yours but I recommend that you choose something else click continue and here I'm running this in a virtual machine this hard drive this virtual hard drive has never been used before so there's no partitions listed here this is kind of the equivalent of buying a hard drive at the store that you've never formatted before that's kind of what this is and if that's the case you'll see the same thing but most likely you'll see a list of partitions here either way click new partition table because we want to blow away whatever's there and in my case there's nothing anyway in which case I have to click new partition table because the options to add a partition are grayed out until I do and basically excuse me it's it's saying to you know base by doing this you're blowing away your entire hard drive and that's exactly what I want so I'll click continue and now it's showing me you know I have some free space here to work with again if you already had an operating system installed on your hard disk you'd want to do a new partition table either way you'll have something similar to this so let's create some partitions now first of all you want to select your free space click the plus icon and then you're going to be given a choice of how big you want the partition to be now the first partition we want to create is the root partition or we linux people say / so we want to create that I recommend about 24 to 30 gigabytes or so just a recommendation obviously if you have a really small hard drive it may not make sense to partition so you might just go back and choose the take over entire hard drive option but 24 to 30 gigabytes around there is good enough for your slash or your root so then you choose a mount point is just the first one listed just the root or slash which can be confusing because there is a slash root partition but anyway it's just a single forward slash that's the first partition that you want to create so go ahead and click OK and it's going to format it it is default checks at the format it has to because slash is where the operating system the distribution itself is going to be installed and I know Windows users might be thinking well that's not a lot of space here well for Linux that is plenty most Windows 7 installations can take most of this right here just from the operating system but Linux is probably only going to take like 36gigabytes of this and maybe after you start downloading updates it might grow to like 10 or 11 gigabytes programs might push you to like 15 gigabytes it you know use your best discretion you could make this 30 gigabytes if you want it certainly no more than 40 that's kind of overkill but this should 24 to 337gigabytes is fine so what we want to do is create another partition so select the free space click the plus sign and what we want to do is create what's called swap windows users might know this as you're paging file basically when Ram gets full this is what's going to be used it's not recommended in Linux to go without swap there's arguments on both sides but I stand firm you should have some swap space so generally speaking how you know how big do you want to make this well generally speaking you should make this equal to the amount of RAM that you have but if you have a machine with a crazy amount of RAM like say 16 gigs that's way too much space for your swap file swap is used for two things one when your RAM gets full it's going to use a swap partition as kind of like stand in RAM but it's also used for hibernation if you plan on using hibernation then you have to set it the amount of space as your actual RAM so if you have 16 gigs ram you would want to make the swap partition 16 gigs but most people don't use hibernation most people just suspend a ram which is also known as sleeping or standby in that case you you know really don't need to create more than 2 gigabytes of swap space so basically if you don't plan on using hibernation just make this in the ballpark of 2 gigabytes I know this isn't exactly 2 gigabytes but it doesn't matter that's fine and then you select swap area you want to create this as primary in my opinion you can create logical unless you're creating more than 4 partitions I don't see your point in doing that so I'll make it primary that's my swap area I'll click OK and it's going to compute that now in my case I'm left with about one hundred and forty five gigabytes and so what do we do with that well that's the whole point of why I'm partitioning this way is to create a separate home partition which is a great idea because that is saving your personal files on its own partition so when you want to reinstall Linux someday should you ever have to you could just format this partition slash which is your operating system or your distribution and not format your home partition that we're about to create and then your files would just not be touched you would be able to reinstall your distribution but keep all your data and that's a great thing to do it's always highly recommended in Linux so whatever is remaining claim all of that for home so just leave that whatever it is make it primary you can leave ext43that's fine go down to slash home click OK and of course it's going to deform at at this time because it didn't exist before but if you are reinstalling your distribution and you want it to retain your slash home which is all your documents make sure this is not checked that's all you got to do so now click the install button and it's going to immediately start formatting and installing Linux right away right away of course it's going to take a minute because this is a VM so give this a moment to finish or get started basically right now it was formatting so anyway the next screen is going to ask you to select your time zone this is going to affect your time synchronization I'm close to detroit ish sometimes it's hard to click that arrow i guarantee you is not really centered on detroit it's kind of weird I guess it's close enough Detroit's the closest region to me but you just basically click on the map as close as you can to wherever you are and that'll set your time zone that'll set your time so it will synchronize automatically to a time server to update your clock and that's what you want especially if you're using syncing tools anyway click continue once you've done that and the next screen is going to you're going to select your keyboard layout if you know you use a different language or something or a different kind of keyboard feel free to go through this list select which one you like to use there's several options here and once you've selected one you could click inside this box and just type on your keyboard just make sure it works and if you use any special keys for other languages that that stuff works too you can click detect keyboard layout if you're not sure it defaults to English though so if that's what you use then just go ahead and select yes and keep the defaults and click continue now you want to create your username I'm just put your first and last name here on the first box and the second one just name your computer whatever your computer is named out I'll just say I just call it my first name a bun - that's fine she was a user name whatever you want you'll need to remember what this is I always make my first initial you know it doesn't matter you can name your username whatever you want that's fine you're going to want to choose a password of a decent one I'm just going to choose an easy one instead because this is just a tutorial type the password in both boxes you can choose to make it login automatically should you should that benefit you maybe you don't want to have to log in every time if you're using a laptop you probably should want to make it require a password to make not make it too easy for people to get into the choice is yours encrypt home folder if you're concerned about security if your laptop would ever get stolen and you have like some really private things on there you could select that keep in mind you won't be able to easily upgrade your Linux installation to the next version I mean you can but you're certainly not going to be able to easily reinstall Linux and keep your home partition so that so that's up to you anyway I'll click continue and it's just going to give you like a little slideshow it was installing the entire time but you know we were setting more options while I was already starting the work in the background this can take I don't know 15220 minutes on really slow machines or as few as five minutes on a faster machine but what I'm going to do is just pause the video and I'll resume it as soon as this is done okay everybody we're done the install finished it did everything I needed to do so once that's done you will see the installation complete pop up as I see right here and I'll just click restart now and if you are using a physical version or excuse me a physical computer what it's going to do is ejected EVD if that's what you used otherwise it's going to just restart as you see here it says remove installation media and closed the tray you can see some errors here again VirtualBox that that happens during startup and shutdown that's normal you wouldn't see that on a physical machine so anyway I'll go ahead and press enter and it should start up right into a bun - and here we go here's a login screen the username I created during the installation is selected by default there's also a guest session if you have if someone wants user computer and you don't want them to use your own account so I'll just type in my password and it should boot me right into the desktop and let me go ahead and stretch the window a little bit here and it's not going to automatically stretch in VirtualBox actually because I don't have the VirtualBox extensions installed but on an actual physical machine of course it's going to look a lot better than this I know everything is huge and there's not a lot of screen real estate here that's just a VirtualBox problem if you're installing this on an actual computer you would it would take up your film monitor and look actually normal so anyway with that said that was your tutorial on installing Ubuntu 14.04 I hope this video helped you out please subscribe to my channel and I'll be making more videos for you very soon
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