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===== Installing ===== | ===== Installing ===== | ||
- | This page will help you decide which type of development installation will best suit you and your hardware. | + | ====== Step 1: Get the Xubuntu development version up and running |
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- | The different types of installation suit different types of testing. Those are dealt with in more detail on the next page, for the moment this list will give you some idea of the suitability of installation and testing types. | + | |
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- | - Install Xubuntu as the main Operating System: Best suited to exploratory testing | + | |
- | - Install Xubuntu alongside another OS: Fairly well suited to exploratory testing | + | |
- | - Install Xubuntu inside a ' | + | |
- | - Use a live media version (on a USB stick, DVD or in a VM: Suited to static testing | + | |
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- | ===== Step 1: Get the Xubuntu development version up and running ===== | + | |
Whatever you do next, first of all you will need to get the Xubuntu development version. This is available as an ISO image file, and the latest (' | Whatever you do next, first of all you will need to get the Xubuntu development version. This is available as an ISO image file, and the latest (' | ||
- | There are then four main options for installing the OS, depending on what you have available. Two extra virtual machine options are discussed on [[https:// | + | There are then four main options for installing the OS, depending on what you have available. |
- You have a computer that you don’t depend on for work, school, or everyday life - **Install Xubuntu as the main Operating System** | - You have a computer that you don’t depend on for work, school, or everyday life - **Install Xubuntu as the main Operating System** | ||
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- You have a computer you can use, but either can't or don't want to install another OS - **Use Live Media to run Xubuntu** | - You have a computer you can use, but either can't or don't want to install another OS - **Use Live Media to run Xubuntu** | ||
- | Once you've done one of these installation methods | + | Each of these is described in a separate paragraph in a bit more detail below, and, after you have installed Xubuntu, at the end of each of these paragraphs |
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+ | However, just by installing | ||
- | In this case the way to tell us is to report | + | Now, the Dev Team really needs to know this extremely valuable information - there are more details on the [[https:// |
==== 1 - You have a computer that you don’t depend on - Install Xubuntu as the main Operating System ==== | ==== 1 - You have a computer that you don’t depend on - Install Xubuntu as the main Operating System ==== | ||
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By simply being online, writing a letter, printing a document, sending an e-mail you discover the problems, that Xubuntu gets to solve. If this seems a fair deal to you, then please get testing. | By simply being online, writing a letter, printing a document, sending an e-mail you discover the problems, that Xubuntu gets to solve. If this seems a fair deal to you, then please get testing. | ||
- | If you don't already know how to do install Xubuntu, then please read this [[https:// | + | If you don't already know how to install Xubuntu, then please read this [[https:// |
Once you've got Xubuntu running, you are ready to move on to Step 2 and start [[https:// | Once you've got Xubuntu running, you are ready to move on to Step 2 and start [[https:// | ||
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* Setting up dual boot can be as simple as choosing the ' | * Setting up dual boot can be as simple as choosing the ' | ||
- | * If however, the Install Alongside isn't available you need to manually create a partition by resizing an existing one and then installing. | + | * If however, the Install Alongside isn't available you need to manually create a partition by resizing an existing one and then installing. We have a section on the [[https://wiki.xubuntu.org/ |
It’s quite common nowadays for computers to have more than one operating system (Windows, Xubuntu, BSD to name a few) on its hard disk. In that case an extra menu (GRUB) will show up at each boot. Every time you start up your computer GRUB lets you choose which operating system you want to use for that session. | It’s quite common nowadays for computers to have more than one operating system (Windows, Xubuntu, BSD to name a few) on its hard disk. In that case an extra menu (GRUB) will show up at each boot. Every time you start up your computer GRUB lets you choose which operating system you want to use for that session. | ||
- | Then the operating system you chose will simply start up and be no different from what you are used to - there is no interference between the operating systems. It's like having two or more computers in one. | + | Then the operating system you choose |
Once you've got Xubuntu running, you are ready to move on to Step 2 and start [[https:// | Once you've got Xubuntu running, you are ready to move on to Step 2 and start [[https:// | ||
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Some simple ways to set up a VM are to use [[https:// | Some simple ways to set up a VM are to use [[https:// | ||
- | Xubuntu testers have some experience with using these for testing and can help you. Midlle-click [[http:// | + | Xubuntu testers have some experience with using these for testing and can help you. Middle-click [[http:// |
There people are often available in real time. | There people are often available in real time. | ||