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Steps to install Ubuntu 9.10

Step 1:

Boot from Ubuntu 9.10 CD-ROM that you have.

Press the ENTER for selecting the language

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Step 2:

For Installing Ubuntu

Select the ‘Install Ubuntu‘ and then press ENTER

For Testing Ubuntu without changing anything in your system

Select the ‘Try Ubuntu…‘ and then press ENTER

Please wait…………..

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Step 3: Select English and Click Forward

Select on India and Click Forward

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Click on ‘Forward’

Step 4:

Very Important ( Don’t imitate as shown below : Read the option explanation

completely ,otherwise you may get your data losed)

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HERE I SUGGEST USING THE THIRD OPTION

‘Specify partitions manually(advanced)’

Here you can select a patition and change it into linux partitions as you like

Note: If you want to use Ubuntu along with WINDOWS installed on your system and have

partitions C,D,……etc then make any of your windows partions free before you begin the

installation.(Better you may take a backup if you are not sure about partitions)

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".

Now you will get a screen like shown below

Now we need two Linux Partitions

a) SWAP partition b) Ext4 journaling file system

Select the free space and Click on ‘Add’ for creating a new partition

For SWAP use partition size 1.5 times of your RAM size and there is no mount point

For Ext4 use a minimum of 4GB for installing the base system and choose

mountpoint as ‘/’(as shown in the figure)

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Warning : Make sure the changes otherwise you will lose the data irrecoverably

Click ‘Forward’

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Step 5 : Enter your details

If you don’t require a password at login ‘Choose Log in automatically’

Click ‘Forward’

Click on ‘Install’ and don’t go for advanced options if you are a beginner

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Please wait for Completing installation…………

Restart your system and feel UBUNTU