Installing Ubuntu

Table of contents

  1. Initial Setup
  2. Storage
  3. Software
  4. Account Info
  5. Finishing touches
  6. Eject the Installation disk.
  7. See also:

For everything that is not covered on this page, you can accept the default and continue!

Initial Setup

  • Configure your language and keyboard as appropriate install install

Storage

  • Make sure to Turn off LVM!
  • Again, UNCHECK “Setup this disk as an LVM group” lvm_no
  • You will probably want to use your entire disk. This is your entire virtual disk, not the disk on your host machine. Y
  • It will prompt you if you want to wipe all data on your disk. This is fine (unless you’re installing outside of a virtual machine) urfine
  • press “Yes” or “ok” a bunch

Software

  • Check the “Install openssh server” option easy ssh
  • When it asks if you want to install any snaps, just press “Done”. snap sucks

Account Info

  • Setup a username and password. These can be anything you want
  • You will need to remember your password
  • You can set the server name to anything you want username

Finishing touches

  • press “yes” some more
  • If you get a prompt to “Enable Ubuntu pro”, select “No”

Eject the Installation disk.

When you reach the point where installation finishes, you can press “restart now”. There is a very good chance that you will see an error that says “[Failed] unmounting /cdrom” or similar. This is ok! Instructions will vary depending on what Virtual Machine software you are using

UTM
  • Navigate to settings, Drive settings, USB
  • Press "Delete Drive"
Virtualbox
  • Navigate to Devices, in the top bar, optical drives
  • Press "Remove Disk From Virtual Drive"

Once you have ejected your disk, You can restart your VM, and you should be greeted with a terminal. Upon a reboot, you should be greeted with a login prompt.

See also: