Installing Ubuntu on New Ursinus Laptops

1) Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
a. Install the 64-bit version
b. Save anywhere, but remember where you save it!
2) Go to http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
a. Click Download UUI
3) Run the Universal USB Installer
a. Agree to terms and Conditions
b. Step 1. Select Ubuntu from the dropdown menu
c. Step 2. Click Browse. Find the .iso document from step 1b. Click Open.
d. Step 3. Select your flash drive (letter only) from the dropdown menu. If the menu
doesnt appear, click Show all drives (USE WITH CAUTION) Note: Use with Caution.
Then try to select your flash drive from the drop down menu, again.
e. Click Create, let it download.
4) Restart your computer.
a. Hit F12 repeatedly immediately after restarting in order to open BIOS Menu.
b. Use arrow keys to scroll to BIOS Set up, hit enter.
c. Go to Boot Sequence
i. Click USB Storage Device or similar device.
ii. Hit up arrow until USB Storage Device is at top.
5) Restart your computer. Do not enter BIOS menu.
a. Ubuntu SHOULD open up without problems.
b. If after 2 minutes, the screen is still black, then:
i. Restart your computer.
ii. When the keyboard and little man show up at the bottom, hit the down arrow
iii. Select English (hit enter)
iv. Hit F6
v. Scroll to nomodeset, hit enter (there should be an X next to nomodeselect
now).
vi. Click Try Ubuntu without Installing
6) At the Ubuntu Desktop:
a. Run Install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from the desktop.
b. Follow prompt until you get to how you want to install it.
c. When it asks something along the lines of, Do you want to install alongside Windows 7,
replace Windows 7, or Something else, choose something else.
7) Partitioning the hard drive:
a. This opens Ubuntus program to partition the hard drive. There is a very large potential
to break something in this screen; so dont mess around with it too much.
b. You should see drives named something like sda1(fat16), sda2(something), sda3(ntfs),
sda4(ntfs). These are youre drives; the 2 larger ones, very likely the (ntfs) drives, are
more familiarly called (C:) and (D:). Dont change the 2 smaller drives.
c. You are only able to have 4 primary drives at a time; so we need to delete either the (C:)
drive or the (D:) drive. (C:) holds the Windows operating system, so we want to delete
(D:).
d. Go to Windows. Its a good idea to back up everything on your (D:) drive either on a
flash drive or by copying it over to the (C:) drive. The Desktop folder is a bit of an
exception. For the Desktop Folder,
i. Create a folder in (C:) named Desktop.
ii. Right click the Desktop folder in (D:).
iii. Hit Properties
iv. Go to the tab Location
v. Click Move
vi. Move to newly created Desktop Folder in (C:)
e. When the (D:) drive is completely empty and everything is backed up somewhere:
i. Hit Control Panel from the start menu.
ii. Click System and Security.
iii. Click Administrative Tools.
iv. Double Click Computer Management
v. On the menu towards the left, click Disk Management.
1. Again, there is a very high potential to break something here.
vi. Right Click your (D:) drive.
1. Double check to make sure you properly backed up all your files.
vii. Click Delete Volume.
f. Go back to Ubuntu (repeat steps 5 and 6).
g. You should now see that one of the larger sda drives was deleted, and you now have a
very large amount of free space.
h. Click the remaining larger drive, this is your (C:). Click Change. You can make this as
large as you want.
i. When choosing how large to make your (C:), keep in mind that you need to
leave enough room for Ubuntu and an additional 8 GB drive.
i. With the remaining free space, we make another partition.
i. Click the + button.
ii. Where it says Type for the new Partition, choose Logical
iii. For the size, take up most of the remaining space, leaving ~8 GB.
iv. For location of the new partition, choose Beginning.
1. Make sure you do h before you do i.
v. Use as: Ext 4 journaling file system.
vi. For mount point, select /
vii. Click OK and Continue.
j. With the remaining 8 GB, create another new partition.
i. Click the + button.
ii. For the type, choose Primary
iii. Use the remaining space.
iv. For the location, choose Beginning
v. Use as: swap point.
vi. Click OK and add.
k. Click the Ext 4 drive and check the Format box.
l. Click install.
8) Follow Ubuntus installation instructions. This is the easy part.