Thursday, June 21, 2018

How to install Ubuntu

As seen on Windows 10 (now Ubuntu)


What?

This is the story of the time I installed Linux / Ubuntu (and lost all my pictures and also my Windows Operating System)


Why?

Windows was occupying a lot of space and not letting me do cool stuff. And what exactly is it updating every week?! Also I thought somehow Ubuntu would allow to me train my Deep Learning Models. (Nope, doesn't work, need more CPU power, and a GPU, not just free Hard Disk space or a different OS :) 


How


  1. Save your precious stuff because even if you think you are going to keep Windows, you may end up formatting your other disks!
  2. Get Ubuntu from https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
  3. Get https://unetbootin.github.io/ to boot 
  4. Save these two things on a USB drive (e.g. pen-drive)
  5. Use unetbootin to extract ubuntu iso on pen-drive or hard disk(if you want to remove windows)
  6. Restart Computer
  7. On my dell, pressing F12 took me to boot up settings.
  8. Select booting from pen-drive
  9. Install Ubuntu or try out first (did both)
  10. During installation it will ask if you want to format your disk. I formatted it, but if you want to keep Windows, too, choose not to format.
Installation takes 30-45 minutes

Oh look! So much free space! 


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