Installing And Processing Linux

Once you are in the BIOS, select “Boot Sequence” and make sure CD-ROM is set to the first one. If it’s not, move it up. All what this does is makes sure your CD-ROM boots before your hard drive.

If all went well, you should see the Ubuntu boot options screen.
you have the option to install it by clicking on the install button on the desktop.

Wubi
Wubi is my favorite option. With the Wubi installer you can install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application. You can use the Live CD version to install Wubi if you followed the steps above and downloaded it. Or you can download the full 5 gigabyte version from
Wubi
http://wubi-installer.org/ .
1. If you downloaded the full 5 gigabyte file, double click it to run it. If you are using the previously downloaded Live CD version, then insert your Ubuntu Live CD. A Ubuntu CD menu should come up.

2. Choose: Install inside Windows
3. In the next window, choose the appropriate options and click install.
4. Wait for it to fully install and hit finish.
5. Reboot the computer. Before Windows loads, a screen will come up that gives you an option to boot into Windows or Ubuntu. Arrow down to Ubuntu and hit <ENTER>.
6. Ubuntu will begin to load. Since this is your first time starting Ubuntu, it will install and configure a bunch of things, and restart again.
7. Boot into Ubuntu again and you’re good to go!


VirtualBox


This is by far my favorite way to run any Linux distribution if I just want to try it out. With VirtualBox you can run Linux within a Windows or Mac computer.
VirtualBox
1. First download VirtualBox at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2. Install it.
3. Open it up and click New on the top.