Installation made easy – a guided process
The Ubuntu installer provides a guided installation process, which leads you through the installation in a very intuitive way. In this chapter, we’ll walk you through that guided installation process, explaining important concepts along the way.
Boot installation media
Now that you’ve prepared your USB stick with Ubuntu installation media, it’s time to boot your computer! Insert the USB stick in a USB port on your computer, preferably USB3, to ensure maximum performance. USB ports with visible blue inside the port are USB3. With the USB stick connected, you must boot your system from USB rather than from the hard drive. You must either interrupt the boot with a keypress or change the boot order in your system’s BIOS to boot from USB media before the hard drive. The process for this will vary depending on your specific computer. For example, on my laptop, pressing the F12 key when seeing the manufacturer...
