This tutorial is for all those viewers who have Windows operating system or Ubuntu installed in their system. This tutorial will explain the following points:-
- How to install Virtual Machine( Virtualbox) in your system?
- How to install Linux (Ubuntu) in your virtual machine?
- Some basic commands to getting stared.
Lets start the process.
- Download the Virtuabox software from virtualbox.org. The process is same for Linux users instead download deb file from here.
- After download install the software by double clicking the installer.
- Now download Ubuntu ISO Image from here.
- After installation of virtualbox now let us create a virtual machine, so that we can install Linux on it. For Linux users all the further steps are same. Click on New icon in the toolbox.
- Type Ubuntu in Name and click next.
- Set memory size as 512 MB.
- Create a virtual hard drive now by clicking create button.
- Keep the hard drive file type as VDI. Click next
- Keep the storage on physical hard drive as dynamically allocated. Click next. Select all defaults now.
- Finally you will see the following screen.
- Now, since we have installed the virtual machine, we will now attach out ISO image of our Ubuntu system that we have downloaded in step 3.
- Click on settings icon on the toolbar.
- Click on Storage option.
- Now click on CD icon with plus sign near Controller : IDE option.
- Now click on Choose disk button to select the ISO Image.
- Select the ISO Image.
- Now yo are ready to install your Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop Operating system on Windows.
- To start the install now click on arrow button start. This will start your virtual machine.
- The installation will now ask you to install Ubuntu so click install.
- Click on continue.
- Select “Erase disk and install Ubuntu” and then click on continue.
- After some 10 minutes it will then ask you to fill some of the entries.
- Installation will start and after it finishes it will ask you to reboot so then press enter from the keyboard to reboot.
- After the system restarts. It will then ask you to enter the password of the username you set during installation.
- Ubuntu Desktop after system starts.
The last figure show the Ubuntu desktop from where you can start your work. To make yourself familiar with the system follow the links below.
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Some of the articles on Ubuntu Vs Windows:
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-12-04-vs-windows-8-five-points-of-comparison/10900
- http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/is-ubuntu-really-an-alternative-to-windows/
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013431/10-reasons-to-choose-ubuntu-12-10-over-windows-8.html
- http://betanews.com/2013/05/28/dear-linux-im-leaving-you-for-windows-8/
- http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2013/070113-ubuntu13-271251.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/
Design and Development of Operating System for teaching operating system course by Gaurav Parashar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Thank you so much sir,, this will helpful for lot of students.