Install Ubuntu With Easy Steps

Start computer and use F12 to boot from CD.
Select Install to hard drive.
Select your language, country, and keyboard layout (i.e. English, United States, American English)
Select manually configure and set an IP address (or autoconfig if you don't know).
Enter your servername (i.e. moodletest)
Select to manually edit the partition table. I’m doing my testing on a standard 40GB harddrive and will modify these sizes for production.


Select to manually edit the partition table. I’m doing my testing on a standard 40GB harddrive and will modify these sizes for production.

/boot ext3 200MB bootable (may need to be under cylinder 1024 on your harddrive to be bootable )
/ ext3 10GB (files are relatively static)
swap 4GB (4xRAM if you don't have much memory, down to 1xRAM if you have gobs of memory)
/var ext3 26GB (variable content – uses rest of the drive)


Select your timezone. (i.e. Central)
Set clock to Universal Time.
Enter Administrators full name. (i.e. Joe Smith)
Enter account name. (i.e. joesmith)
Enter a secure password. (‘abcde’ is not a good one!)
Let the computer restart.
Log in your account.
Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file. Remove the # mark on lines 22 and 38 to enable access to the universe package source and universe
security updates. You will need to re-enter your account password when sudo asks for it.