From the course: Ubuntu Linux: Essential Commands

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Installing Linux on a physical machine

Installing Linux on a physical machine

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Installing Linux on a physical machine

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- [Instructor] To install Linux on a physical machine, first we need an installer. It used to be common to install from a CD or other optical media. But now we often use a USB thumb drive instead. Once the installation image is downloaded from the Distro site, we can use a variety of strategies to create a USB installer. On Windows, there's Rufus. And on Mac and Linux, it's common to make an installer from the command line, with a dd command. And it's very important to get the right disk indicator from the OF portion, or output file. Otherwise, you could overwrite the wrong disk. I've made an installer, and I'll plug it in to my machine here and turn it on. As the system boots, I'll press a key to choose the boot selector. In my case, it's F10, but yours may be different. And then I'll choose the USB media. At the startup menu, I'll choose Install Ubuntu. After a moment or so, the Ubuntu installer starts up. First I am prompted to choose the language that I want to use for the…

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