The Open Road to Ubuntu #challengegetubuntu

THIS WAS MY FIRST EVER UBUNTU INSTALL.  WHAT A PLEASANT EXPERIENCE!

My install of Ubuntu was relatively simple.  Only a couple of hitches.  There were a few steps in the process.

1. Download the ISO of the operating system.Ubuntu 10.10 was my choice.  It can be found here. Be sure and choose the correct bit, 32 or 64, for your machine.
2. Once you have the iso image, you should burn it to a disk as an image.  This does require a special software.  I found a good choice called IMG Burn.  Download it here. It is very easy to use and I recommend it. 
3. Use this software to burn your ISO to a disk. Be sure the write speed is correct.  I had the best luck with 1x.  My older machine would not boot from the disk written at 8X.

      4.  After burning the disk and before attempting to boot.  Open the disk from your Disk Drive like a normal cd.  It should have about 8 files in it plus an installer button.  If it only has one file, the download from earlier, then it was not written as an image.  It is simply a data file and your computer will not boot from it.

  5.  The next step is to put it in your new machine, set the bios to boot from disk, and restart your computer. It should boot into Ubuntu.  After this you will have several; choices to make.  I chose to set up a partition of mostly Ubuntu but a little XP.  (Ubuntu won't play Netflix) 

Here is a more extensive tutorial for this process as well as an outline of the different types of installs. Just remember to have a low write speed when you burn your disk. 

This will be the result.  The coolness of ubuntu.