New computer

[gavanover]

Alright,

I'm building my first computer and Im not sure about two things. First of all I'm not sure how to install Ubuntu. I have only ran it as a partition and am not sure the process i need to go through to install it on a newly built machine.
My second question is that when i partitioned it ( was kinda giving it a test run to see if i could cope with the change from windows) I remember not being able to run world of warcraft. I couldn't get wine to run it. I want to run starcraft II and I'm not sure how thats going to go over. Is that going to give me a problem?
I realize these should probably be separate threads but i figured these could be answered relatively easily.

Thank you for any help you can provide a Linux Newb

[nujinini]

Hi & Welcome gavanover!

I'm building my first computer and Im not sure about two things. First of all I'm not sure how to install Ubuntu. I have only ran it as a partition and am not sure the process i need to go through to install it on a newly built machine.

You can download an ISO (32 or 64 bit version) depending on your system.
Burn it on a CD.
Boot from live CD.
Install using available installer found on desktop.

or you can use a pen drive.

[MASONTX]

Welcome to the forum. As usual nujinini has put it better than I can. Installing Ubuntu 10.04 is straight forward and easy, all the tools you need are on the live CD, and the wizards lead you through the process.

[nujinini]

Welcome to the forum. As usual nujinini has put it better than I can. Installing Ubuntu 10.04 is straight forward and easy, all the tools you need are on the live CD, and the wizards lead you through the process.

Your being too kind...

[oz]

Hello and welcome to the forums!

You can check out the videos below at YouTube showing how to install Ubuntu, but the self-guided menu that comes with the installer is easy enough to follow that I doubt any additional instructions will be necessary for you to accomplish a successful install:

YouTube - install ubuntu 10.04

Let us know how it goes.

[gavanover]

i thought there was a specific way i had to burn the cd to be able to boot it. I just burn it like normal? Could someone perhaps give me a link to where i would download it?

[oz]

i thought there was a specific way i had to burn the cd to be able to boot it. I just burn it like normal? Could someone perhaps give me a link to where i would download it?

Check this link for steps to burn an ISO file to disk as an image:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...ll-cd-dvd.html

You can download the ISO file from the downloads page at the Ubuntu website:

Download | Ubuntu