Cabrillo College

Software used

You may use Operating System CD's or ISO image files of the Operating System CD's. When you configure the Virtual Machine's CD you can specify the physical CD drive of the host or browse to an ISO image of the CD on the host.

Step 1 - Make a new Virtual Machine

Create new VM

Run VMware Server

Step 2 - Select Ubuntu CD

Select Ubuntu CD (physical or ISO)

Select Ubuntu CD

Step 3 - Install Ubuntu

Start up the Virtual Machine

Choose language

Select language and press Enter

Decide on running from CD or installing

Choose Install Ubuntu, press Enter, then watch progress bar zip back and forth. Next the brown wallpaper with large bird is displayed followed by the first step of the installation wizard:

Introduction

Click on Forward

Time zone

Use Los Angeles for Pacific Time Zone, click on Forward

Keyboard

Click on Forward

Partition resizing

Use Guided - use entire disk and SCSI1 (0.0.0) (sda) ..., click on Forward

User configuration

Enter user information and password, click on Forward

Summary

Click on Install to begin copying files

Copying files

Get coffee

Finished

Ubuntu has finished copying all the files

Step 4 - Remove CD and startup Ubuntu

When Ubuntu prompts to remove the CD do the following:

Disconnect CD

Then click back inside the window and press Enter

Ubuntu startup

Ubuntu starting up

Ubuntu login

Congratulations - Ubuntu is installed and ready to go