This is HOWI so you may find out HOWTO

Press the start button. After a few seconds a new windows will appear it will be the screen of your virtual Ubuntu Server. Select your language to get to the first menu.

The first few screens should be self evident in what you should enter. I liver in England and so speak and read English and have an English Keyboard layout.

Enter the host name of your new server machine. I bet you can guess what mine will be doing

Now we get to the interesting part where we partition the hard drive. We only want two partitions, one for the software which will be mounted as root '/' and the other will be the swap area. We will do this manually.

We start by selecting the blank drive and adding an empty partition on the entire drive.

Select the yes as we cannot do anything until this step is completed.

We will now create the two partitions on top of the one we just created. One for root the other for swap.

Select Create a New Partition.

Enter the size of what will be the root partition. I have simply subtracted approximately 1Gb from the total. I say approximately because Hard disk manufactures don't use full size Gb or Mb. The ones they use are smaller than real GB they are only 1000Kb * 1000 Mb and not 1024 * 1024 as they should be.

Make this a Primary partition as we will only have two partitions in all on this drive.

There are a number of setting on this screen that need to be changed. They can be changed by moving the cursor up and down and then pressing return. At that point you will be able to make further selections.

• Use as; Ext4, Journaling file system
• Mount Point: /
• Bootable Flag: on

Once they are all set press return when over the Done setting up the partition.

Now select the remaining space which will be used for our swap area.

Select all the remaining space for the swap area.

Make this a primary partition as well. Although it does not really matter that much. Yes I know I missed of the screen shot ;o. This time the partition needs to be configured as,

• Use as; swap area
• Bootable Flag: off

Back at the main menu for Partitioning again. one last check all is as it should be.

Well Yes we do want to write the changes to the disk, but its always good to read the description before pressing return. 7|

This will be the real name of your primary user. He will automatically get sudo privileges.

This is the Linux user name. that is, it will be the name you use while using this Linux system. It is the one returned by the command whoami.

You may get asked about using a weak password, well that is entirly up to you. This will be a server and so there is no need to encrypt the home directory as the user will not be storing anything of value other then configuration files.

Just press return here unless you do actually have a proxy server for the packages.

For me this will be a mailserver and so i do not want any unexpected suprises. So I will schedule when and updatres are to be made.

I will also install and configure the software myself. so I do not need anything here either. But thank you very much for offering.

Then you have a little bit of a wait while all that gets sorted out and installed.

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