Screencast: Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Just as we published a few days ago how is the process of installing Opensuse 11.0 through a screencast, today it is the turn to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.


The installation system is quite different in the two distributions, each with its strengths and its flaws. Most importantly, the installation process Ubuntu is the full load mode live operating system and the user desktop from the CD, before proceeding to anchor it permanently to the hard disk.








When you start your computer from the CD Ubuntu 8.04, after a few minutes of loading system appears a desk with a window that is central to welcome the installer program. If such application is canceled installation, you can access a full meeting live from check to see how the system on the machine. Of course, can be used to test all the menus, Internet connections, configurations, applications and different types of files that come installed by default and see how well it will work around once you have fully installed on the hard disks. When the user is already prepared to proceed with the installation of the operating system only need to double click on the icon with the name? Install? Situated in one's own desktop and restarted, the setup application.


The fourth of the total seven steps of the process is the disk partitioning, which remains the most critical point. I still understand why the suggestion default partitioning three partitions are not differentiated for the root directory, home with the user space and an area of exchange (swap). Instead, Ubuntu proposes only two, a swap partition and one for the root directory, which also includes space for users. Of course, the partitioning program will detect all partitions that have already created on the disk and allows mark what we want to reformat. At that time can be eliminated, creating new, resize partitions and reorganize.





One detail that remains somewhat hidden is the option to install the bootloader GRUB and also activate the survey for the usage statistics package distribution. Both options are accessible from a button? Advanced? to show the final summary of the audit of all data from the facility. From this same menu can also be configured the proxy of the network.





Moreover, it is a very quick and easy installation to a desk full load from the CD, live, run the installer system and once set the installation step by step restarts to boot for the first time since the Ubuntu disc hard.





I'm staying with the installer or 11.0 Opensuse with Ubuntu 8.04? Well, I'll stay with the two, the truth is that both have their good and bad things. Both systems improved version after version and they both manage to secure closer to the goal of installing an operating system that may be made of the simplest and easiest way, without having expertise in this area. The best thing would be to achieve a merger between the two, get a complete desktop live like Ubuntu with all the details such care as they do in Opensuse.


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