Installing Ubuntu On VirtualBox

Hey guys, it's Mad Kids 11, and today is the video on how to install Ubuntu desktop on your computer using two things.

First of all, some free software called VirtualBox by Sun Microsystems. Okay, then the second thing is a copy of Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10 desktop.

So, in order to obtain these two things, first of all, VirtualBox is open source, so we know that it doesn't do anything bad to your computer because I personally read through a bunch of the source code before downloading it. But, um, if you Google VirtualBox, I will have a link to a good website for this, and then you click on VirtualBox downloads. I will have a link to this, and then you say for OSX, and then you click Intel Macs. It'll ask you to download this, and this is VirtualBox.

You will have to install it because it's very complex software. Um, okay, once you've done that, you have to download a file that looks like this, which is an operating system file. So, that's actually the file for the live CD.

So, you go to ubuntu.com, and I will point out if this will also work with Debian, but I'm not showing that on this thing here on ubuntu.com. On this thing, it says "Schedule Bounty." There's a download link, and I’ll have a link in the description of the video to download the .iso.

So, that I got, please select a location. I'm just going to say it really doesn't matter because I'm not actually going to use this website to download. But if you click "Begin Download," you click the URL, and it'll ask you to download.

Once you're done downloading, and that could take a very long time since this file is 698 megabytes, you should really choose a location close to you, so that way it works.

Once you've done downloading, we're going to install this on VirtualBox, so you're going to want to open up VirtualBox, and right here is VirtualBox. You just click "New," then click "Next."

So, what are we gonna call it? We're going to call it "ubuntu 8.10" because that's what I got, desktop. Now, under "Operating System," we're going to select Linux, and under "Version," we're going to select Ubuntu. Pretty simple.

Now we're going to click "Next." Um, this is how much RAM it's gonna get. I'm just going to give it a gigabyte of RAM. If you only have a gigabyte of RAM, and you can find that up by going into "About this Mac," it'll say RAM is actually memory.

Right here it says 4 gigabytes of memory, so I'm 4 gigabytes of memory. If that says one gigabyte, you should give it 512 megabytes. If it says two gigabytes, give a 1 gigabyte. If it says 3 gigabytes, give it 1.5 gigabytes, etc.

So right here, we're going to select one gigabyte, which is 1000 megabytes. Now we're gonna click "Next," and now it's gonna say what hard drive do you want to do. I'm just going to click "New," then I'll click "Next."

Now I'm going to click "Fixed Storage," and then "Next." Now I'm going to call it "bun 8.10 desktop." Now, what size is the hard drive going to be? 8 gigabytes; I like 8 gigabytes. That's a good size for Ubuntu.

Then you click "Next." So now I'll click "Finish," and it's going to be called "ubuntu 8.10 desktop.vdi" or VDI, sorry. Um, so this is going to take a little while to do, so I'm going to do a cut here. You can just make a sandwich or something while it's loading.

So, there you go. Okay, so as you can see, it's almost done, and what this process really is doing is creating a fake hard drive for me to use. So right here, it's 8 gigabytes large, and it's a .vdi file.

Now I'll just go "Next." And so now it's asking, this is all the stuff on the we want to set up with this. So now we click "Finish."

Now, it's important that you watch exactly what I do. Vince's ex parte, you click on the one you think you just created on the side. Now you click on "CD / DVD ROM," and now what you want to do is just make sure to check "Mount CD / DVD Drive."

Then instead of "Host CD / DVD Drive," check "ISO Image File." And now this right here is the image file I have right here, but that's really I'm not going to be there by default. So you want to just click this little folder thing next year, then on this window, you can click "Add," and then from here, you can select the thing on your desktop and then click "Select."

And now it'll be right there, then you want to click "OK." So now you set up the CD to be "ubuntu 8.10 desktop." So now you want to click "Start."

So, this is going to boot onto this, um, basically fake CD that we have. Now we're going to hit enter because it selected English, and now, um, even though "Install Ubuntu" is an option, we're gonna use the arrow keys and just select "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer."

So you just have to hit enter. Okay, and so so far this is like moving into Boot Camp off the CD. It's pretty much like what we were doing there.

The only difference with this is that we are going to install it through this because now we're on a virtual machine that only has 8 gigabytes, and it won't affect our hard drive. Whatever we do on this, so we can type on Don't Shower / on this computer, on this virtual machine, and it won't even affect our hard drive at all, other than that one file that acts as this thing’s hard drive.

Simple, it's just going to boot up, and it's going to take a while since it's booted from the CD, so I'm going to do a cut here while it loads.

Okay, so right here it's loading my desktop, and so yeah, so right here you can test out Ubuntu and all the stuff that you want to know if it works and stuff, but it's going to be twice as slow as it normally would be, and there's only going to be a limited amount of storage.

So, if we really want to install Ubuntu, um, there's this icon on our desktop called "Install." We just double-click that.

And so now that I've opened that up, I'll go through the simple installation process of Ubuntu. So first of all, you select English, and you click "Forward."

Okay, now I'll just select my timezone as New York. Okay, so now it's going to ask me one more question, and I believe next it's starting the partitioner, which means it's going to try to partition the 8 gigabytes in my virtual hard drive, so we want to select "Guided," and then this 8 gigabyte hard drive that we made.

So we click "Next." Okay, so it's routed the partition. So, next, that's going to ask us to enter some personal information, like what is my name? I am Alex Nichols.

What is my username? Alex. What is my password? So now, what is the name of this computer? I'm just going to say "Alex Laptop." Now say "Next" or "Forward." Now click "Install."

Now it's partitioning my system. This is going to take a little while, so I'm going to do another cut here while it loads.

Okay, so as you can see, I'm at ninety-five percent right now, and it should finish pretty soon. I'm just waiting on it to finish now, and it's just about done.

So, once it's done, it's gonna ask you whether you want to reboot or what, and I mean when it reboots, and it'll just reboot the virtual machine, not my computer. So, I can stay recording while it reboots, which is pretty cool.

So now I'll click "Restart." Now, okay, now it's rebooting my virtual machine that we've made. Now, when it reboots, um, when it's shutting down right now, um, it'll ask you to hit "Enter."

So just hit enter, and you don't need to open your CD tray, so hit enter. Now press F12 as soon as you see that screen and press "1." Now it's going to boot up on the virtual hard drive that we've installed Ubuntu on.

So now what? Login? And I made a username earlier; I hope I remember what it is. Yeah, I don't know what it is.

Okay, so luckily I remembered, but you have to make sure that you remember that because otherwise you're kind of in trouble. So here is my Ubuntu 12 desktop, and um, so you'll notice that this doesn't recognize your graphics card, so you can't do all the cool effects by default, and configuring that is very difficult.

So you might have to do that on your own. Um, but this is Ubuntu; it may or may not work with your Wi-Fi network; probably not.

Like, I mean, like the Wi-Fi might be disabled on Ubuntu, and you might just have to jack in using an Ethernet cable. That's what I did. My Ethernet cable is currently plugged in; I'm also connected to Wi-Fi. I don't actually know why, but um, so this is it.

So, um, this is Ubuntu. Um, to right-click in this, you want to hold two fingers on either side of the trackpad and click, and then you can say "Eject Volume," and that gets rid of it.

I'm just going to show you one more thing. If you press in the bottom right-hand corner of this window, right here it says "Left Command." If you press that, it will escape your mouse from the Ubuntu window and your keyboard, and if you press it again...

Yeah, left command is not a keystroke. Left key command, it’s the command key on the left side of your keyboard.

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