Installing Ubuntu Linux to your hard drive from LiveCD.

Introduction

The Ubuntu Live CD's may be installed to hard drive. The process to be followed is similar to the one followed by the Knoppix and DSL installer scripts

Credits: This howto is based upon the [http://www.willmer.com/kb/2005/02/installing-ubuntu-hoary-from-livecd/ Installing Ubuntu Hoary from LiveCD] , but has been updated.

This method works for the [http://www.ubuntu.org/ Ubuntu] and the [http://www.kubuntu.org/ Kubuntu] live cds.

This is also the ONLY method to install [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ebuntu Ebuntu] to your Hard Drive.

Warning: This method worked for me. If you do something wrong, you may screw up your system. This has not been tested on SCSI systems. SCSI systems require kernel recompilation and that is beyond the scope of this Howto.

Proceed at your own risk.

Also i expect that you are comfortable with the command line interface in particular and linux in general.

Lets Begin

Be careful! There are no seat belts attached here!. People who have experience with Gentoo Linux will feel at home though..

Ideally , you should try this out on a spare hard disk. Although a spare partition would do too. Just be careful when you are installing grub in that case.

Before you start

Assume that all the data that you have on your hard disk is going to get lost.

Thus you have two alternatives here

1) Backup all your data on CD's/DVD's/Network etc.

2) Install on a spare hard disk (Highly recommended for novices)

What we will do here is to do by hand what the installer does automatically.

Advantages of this approach: This method allows you to have finer grained control of the installation than the default Ubuntu installer

Disadvantages: If you screw up, you'll have to start all over again, from the first step!

Know that you know what you're getting into, lets proceed.

NOTE:

1) Warnings are bold.

2) The commands that you have to type are in italics.

Create New Partiion

Make File Systems on hard disk partitions

Create and mount partitions

Setup Networking

Install cloop-utils

Populate file system

Mount uncompressed file system

Copy filesystem to new partition

Setup the new file system

Change over to your new filesystem

Configure internet connection

Edit /etc/fstab (file system information)

Add yourself to the visudoers list

Install GRUB

Update the Kernel Image Configuration File

Generate Grub config file

Post Install

This distro is just starting. Any sort of help is welcome the #ebuntu IRC channel on irc.freenode.org is the point of contact for us now

TODO: Set up a mailing list. More on this as it happens

For the time being, please contact [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Manishchakravarty at manishchakravarty@yahoo.co.in. You may also use the ubuntu-users list for the time being.