Install Ubuntu 10.04
on vitrtual machine which you installed.
Maybe 10.10 or later are also available, but no tested.
Installation flow(VirtualBox)
- Download the install image of Ubuntu 10.04.
If you are Japanese, Japanese Remix
is also available.
Maybe it is easier than normal edition for Japanese.
- Click New to create a new virtual machine.
- Set virtual machine
- Set memory 512MB or larger.
- If you don't have virtual hard disk, create it.
Dynamically expanding storage is recommended.
In this mode you can create extremely huge hard disk,
because the size of virtual strage file dynamically variable.
And changing the size of virtual hard disk is difficult even if it is virtual.
Author usually create 500GB or larger.
- Install Ubuntu 10.04
- Run the virutal machine that you have created. Then you will see First Run Wizard.
- Follow the wizard and set the Media Source to the downloaded image of Ubuntu 10.04. Then installer of Ubuntu show up.
- Select Install.
- Set time region and keyboard.
- Set partition. If you don't care, use entire disk.
- Set user name, password and computer name. Check login automatically if you want.
- Then click Install and wait for some minutes.
- After finishing the installation, click reboot button.
- Deactivate CD/DVD Device by uncheck the install disk from Devices
CD/DVD Devices. And hit ENTER key.
- Login
- Update
- Automatically
- Some minutes later after login, Update Manager pops up.
- Click Install Updates button.
- Input your password. Then update starts. It may take long time.
- Reboot if you need.
- Manually
- Launch Terminal from Applications
Accessories
Terminal
- Type
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- Input your password. Then update starts. It may take long time.
- Reboot if you need.
hiroshi
2011-01-12