So If you’ve never used Ubuntu before, choose the Try Ubuntu option, otherwise, choose Install Ubuntu. It’s the easiest way to test-drive the OS. Ubuntu 13.10’s installation image is a Live image, which means you can run it on your computer without installing it. After the computer has booted, you will be presented with the choices shown in the screen shot below. Be sure to set the computer to boot from external media, then reboot the computer.ġ. Once that’s done, insert the USB stick in a free USB port, or the DVD in the computer’s optical drive. If you need help with that, see Install Ubuntu 13.10 using a USB key from Window or another Linux distribution. The recommended method is to transfer it to a USB Stick. It’s almost 900 MB in size, so it won’t fit on a CD. Ok, after downloading Ubuntu, the next task is to transfer it to a USB stick or burn it to a DVD.
Ubuntu is produced by a commercial entity called Canonical. And if you can, donate something, no matter how small. If you have not done so already, download a copy of Ubuntu 13.10 from here. That’s the subject of a separate article, so I won’t discuss it further.
Yes, I know, Mac OS X Mavericks is free, but there’s a difference between OS X-free and Linux-free. A few will request a goodwill donation before you download, but you can still download without donating anything. Unlike Microsoft’s Windows or Apple’s Mac OS X, Ubuntu (13.10) and the vast majority of Linux distributions are free to download and use.
For most users, that computer will likely be running either Windows 7 or 8, so I’ve used a test computer that’s running Windows 8 Pro for this tutorial. So, without further ado, here’s a step-by-step guide for installing Ubuntu 13.10 on your computer. I don’t like Windows, but I don’t want anybody to lose data while installing any Linux distribution. Unfortunately for that guy, he lost his C drive and, with it, all his files. But what actually ended up happening was all my partitions merged into one deleting everything. When I chose to remove windows I assumed it would be placed on my C drive and not my other one. One with files I wanted to keep and the other being the windows 7 partition. When I went to install 13.10 I chose the option to remove windows and replace with Ubuntu. I’ve been thinking about writing this for a while, but didn’t think there will be a real need for it until I saw this forum post, which I’ve quoted below: What’s easy for one person might not necessarily be for another. You would think that because Ubiquity, Ubuntu’s graphical installation is a point-and-click application, that users will not have any problem using it. This is a new user’s guide for installing Ubuntu 13.10 on a computer that has another OS already installed on the hard disk drive (HDD).