System and Network

Administration Linux based

Lecture 5- Linux Installation

Week 3,
24th October, 2017.
LINUX INSTALLATION

Installing Ubuntu with

VMWare Player
Installing Ubuntu with
VMWare Player …

 Installing Ubuntu with VMWare Player

The Steps involved are :

1) Download & install VMWare Player.

2) Download Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
3) Install Ubuntu with VMWare Player.
What is virtualization?

 What is VMWare Player?

 VMware Player is a virtualization
software package supplied free of
charge by VMware, Inc.
 What is virtualization?
 Virtualization allows us to run one
operating system(Guest OS) to run
on another operating system(Host
OS).
What is a Partition?

 Partitioning is a means to divide a

single hard drive into many logical
drives.
 A partition is a contiguous set of
blocks on a drive that are treated as
an independent disk.
 A partition table is an index that
relates sections of the hard drive to
partitions.
 Why have multiple
partitions?
 Reduce the risk of system failure in case a
partition becomes full.

 Running processes or users can consume so

much disk space that the operating system no
longer has room on the hard drive for its
bookkeeping operations. This will lead to
disaster.

 By separating space, you ensure that things

other than the operating system die when
allocated disk space is exhausted.
Partition Fields
 Device: This field displays the partition's
device name.
 Start: This field shows the sector on your
hard drive where the partition begins.
 End: This field shows the sector on your
hard drive where the partition ends.
 Size: This field shows the partition's size
(in MB).
 Type: This field shows the partition's type
(for example, ext2, ext3, or vfat).
Partition Fields …

 A filesystem is a way of storing, organizing and

accessing files (directories) on a storage
device. In Linux, the popular filesystems
are ext2,ext3 and ext4 file systems
 Mount Point: A mount point is the location
within the directory hierarchy at which a
volume exists; the volume is "mounted" at this
location. This field indicates where the partition
will be mounted.
 Enter the partition mount point. For example, if
the partition should be the root partition, enter
/; enter /boot for the boot partition and so on.
Mount Point
Filesystem Types
 ext2 — An ext2 filesystem supports standard
Unix file types (regular files, directories, etc).
It provides the ability to assign long file names,
up to 255 characters.
 ext3 — The ext3 filesystem is based on the
ext2 filesystem and has one main advantage —
journaling. Using a journaling filesystem
reduces time spent recovering a filesystem
after a crash
 swap — Swap partitions are used to support
virtual memory. In other words, data is written
to a swap partition when there is not enough
RAM to store the data your system is
processing.
Downloading VMWare
Player

 VMWare Player is free for personal

non commercial use.
 The current version 6.0.0 can be
downloaded from following url.
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_en
d_user_computing/vmware_player/6_0

 Download the VMWare player that

suits your host OS architecture.
Installing VMWare Player

 The installation of VMWare player is

very simple.
 Double click the downloaded setup
file to run installer & follow
appropriate installation steps.
Downloading Ubuntu

 Download the Ubuntu Desktop

distribution from following URL
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

 Select the release to match your

requirement & system architecture.
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player

 Open the VMWare Player. – Now click

the link “Create New Virtual Machine”
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player
 Select option Installer disc image file
& click “Browse...”
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …

 Select Downloaded 'iso' file for

Ubuntu. & click “Next”
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …

 Fill in the required information &

continue the installation.
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …
 Select the directory where virtual machine
files to be saved. Make sure you have
sufficient space on that disk.
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …

 Select amount of disk space for

Ubuntu installation.
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …
 Click “Customize Hardware...” to view
virtual machine configuration.
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …
 We can now set amount of RAM, no of
processors, network adapter, CD/DVD
drives etc. For virtual machine.
 Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …
 Once we click finish “Ubuntu” installation starts.
– If you want to try Ubuntu Live media without
any installation click Try Ubuntu else click
“Install Ubuntu” to continue installation. Follow
the wizard for installation.
Installing Ubuntu on
VMWare Player …

 Once installation is complete virtual

machine will reboot & ubuntu Linux
starts, will ask for login credentials.
Ubuntu on VMWare Player

 Now you can enjoy your Ubuntu

environment.