Chapter 2. Installation Overview

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Planning the Installation

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Setting Up the Hard Disk

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LVM: Logical Volume Manager

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The Installation Process

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Downloading and Burning a CD/DVD

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Using BitTorrent

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Gathering Information About the System

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Installing Ubuntu Linux is the process of copying operating system files from a CD or DVD to hard drive(s) on a system and setting up configuration files so that Linux runs properly on the hardware. Several types of installations are possible, including fresh installations, upgrades from older releases of Ubuntu Linux, and dual-boot installations.

This chapter discusses the installation process in general: planning, partitioning the hard disk, obtaining ...

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