Today (October 29th) a new linux distribution will be available for everybody. This Operative system is mean to be easy to install, configure and manage.
We know that there is so much people willing to use linux but without enough confidence to get it installed successfully, others think that some IT knowledge is requiered to install a linux distribution. Most of my friends can be placed in one of the mentioned groups, so the bluepastic people let’s me use their space to ‘publicar’ my friend-oriented manuals, so everyone interested can use them. Hope this will not be my last colaboration in this blog. 
Let’s get started:
Obtain the Ubuntu 9.10 CD
To start we need two things, one computer and an Ubuntu CD.
- The computer can be a pc (with windows) or a mac (with macOSX). Ubuntu can be installed on both, and I’ll will note the diferences.
- The Ubuntu CD can be downloaded here. Tomorrow will be 29, so you’ll be able to download it directly when clicking on ‘Begin download’.
-Help: Mac users should download i386 version, is the one by defect. And this i386 version also works on windows computers. As location you can choose whatever you like.
-Help 2: to ‘burn’ the cd you can use -infrarecorder(windows) which can be installed with the next,next, accept, finish paradigm. Or in cas you are using a mac ……
Now we have the Ubuntu cd, label it so you can use it on the future, use a pen designed for that pourpose or a sticky label, please do not use alcoholic based pens.
Now we put it into the computer, and probably a window will appear which I have always closed right away. Now we reboot the computer, with the cd inside.
Here we have to options a menu like the one I’ve added a few lines above or nothing special happens. If nothing special happends we will end with our usual system booting, please don’t press the button, closing a system while booting is not very good stuff. Let it boot and then reboot again, make sure you start from CD next time.
When starting from CD this means we are not going to use the hard drive, so we can not harm anything until the end, don’t worry it’s completly safe.
Installation setup
Restart if you haven’t done it yet. And boot from CD.
If you are having troubles do not hesirate to ask on the comments.
- Mac people should by now have made a partition of ~10Gb minimimum using /Aplications/Utils/Disc utility
If we boot from CD we will found ourself with a menu like this:
Pantalla incicial de instalación
The options shown are:
Try Ubuntu => Literally TRY, it does not install, does not touch the hard drive, it’s for test pourposes. If you would like to know if you computer is Ubuntu9.10 capable you must use this option, if you computer is new enough it will be capable for sure, and for new I mean bough on the last 5 years.
Install Ubuntu => It’s our choice. It will help us divide our disk on windows pc’s and do all the stuff on 7 steps.
Check disk => This option can be used to test the integrity of our ram memory, on ubuntu or windows or whatever, the ram does not depend on the software operating it. It’s just a helt check tool.
Boot from first hard disk => Boot as no CD was on the computer. Normal boot.
First of all we will press F2 and select the language used to install the linux distribution.
I go with english.
F2- Seleccionar idioma de instalación
Next we press F3 to select the keyboard layout. Check the one from you region, if unsure remember it when choosing a password.
F3 - Seleccionar la distribución del teclado para la instalación
We are not going to use the other options, you can look but to follow this tutorial please don’t touch . :=)
Use cursors to select Install Ubuntu and press intro.
Pantalla incicial de instalación
We wait a bit and a new window will appear.
Seleccionar idioma
This language is for the installed system, our future installed system, the language previously selected was for the installation itself. Select english and click Fordward.
Now the wold divided by time use will be presented, choose where you live. This is about you clock time, i really do not know how to say it in english, but I think it’s easy to understand. So Select you time and click Forward.
Seleccionar la franja horaria.
Next is keyboard layout, here you can check if the one previous selected is for the installation itself, it’s the same as the language. Choose you keyboard, test it on the bottom bar and click Forward.
Seleccionar idioma
The computer thinks, and yeahh.. it’s partition time. What does it means? Where are going to have two opeartive systems on the same hard drive, so they need to have a space for each one. We are at the point when we decide how much space we give to each one. If you don’t know how much space should be used then go with 50% or 75%, you can move the ratio with your mouse.
In case we would like to erase all the disc and only use Ubuntu, just select “Erase and use the entire disk” and this is it.
- Mac users should use “Use biggest free continous space “, this is the space prepared previously with the disk utility from mac OSX.
This is how a new installation should look like.
Distribución del disco según el sistema operativo
And this is how a two systems installation will look like.
Particionar el disco en dos partes iguales.
We click forward, and a new window appear.
Ovbiously we click continue.
It will take a bit and after this is time for username and password.
usuario que va a usar el ordenador
It is asking about you name, the user you would like to use(can be the name) and the password.
Then the name for you computer, choose whatever you like, like a dog name.
The log in options are ordered by fast -> slow, at the same time fast means unsecure and slow means secure. Anyway for a home desktop i use ‘log in automatically’. And click Forward.
Now is possible that we can migrate data from the other operative systems, usually you should choose not to import anything.
And the final step is in front of us.
- MacOSX users(not windows users) , once again, should go to advanced, and choose a diferent point of intallation for the grub boot loader, usuarlly /dev/sda3. If you don’t know which is you ubuntu installation mount point you should go back to the partition diagrams.
final de la instalación
After this you can go for a coffe because Ubuntu is working on the disk. Please do not shut down the system now, and go for a cofe break. The time on this step will depend on the size of the disk.
Instalación completada
We click on reboot and wait for the Grub menu to appear. If after 5 minutes, and not before, the machine does not reboot do not panic, you just installed a full operative system, sometimes it hangs on reboot, you can push the button for a while until it halts.
When booting again it will show us the next menu, with ubuntu preselected or a mac OSX version of it.
On the next days I will post some usefull postinstallation steps.
Thanks.
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28 October 2009 at 14:34
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11 January 2010 at 20:01
hola, buenas, mi pregunta es: ¿existen limitaciones para instalar ubuntu en mi PS3 a causa de que vivo en México y compré mi PS3 en Vancouver Canadá?
13 January 2010 at 13:38
Ninguna limitación, ningún problema, el ubuntu está compilado para ps3.
Un saludo,
Francis.
13 January 2010 at 17:27
gracias francis, ahora mi duda es, que quise instalar mi so para este ubuntu 9.10 y no me detectó el archivo, dice: “no se encuentra ningun archivo para instalar” siendo que el iso está dentro, supuestamente no necesito un otheros.bdl en alguna USB o SD, leí que debe detectar el que ya tiene el iso, pero n olo hace, en cambio sólo me sale en kboot:
No default root fs was found, or one was found and it didn’t contains a message=config file.
If no roots was found, you can enter thr shell here whit ‘sh’. Exiting will return you to this prompt. In the shell you can mount your rootfs as
/mnt/root/.
Reasons this may have happend include:
- No drive with a rootfs was actually found.
- Your rootfs does not have the correct volume label of “/”
_ Your rootfs is corrupt (use the rescure CD to fix this).
kboot: _
me metí a kboot con un otheros.bdl externo (en una usb) instalado y algo de lo que me sale es que mi pendrive no está formateado en FAT32, no sé a qué se refiera la verdad no sé mucho de eso, y ya ando medio desvelado de las noches en vela que he pasado jaja y ya quiero ver mi ubuntu instaladoooo jaja, alguien de caridad que sepa qué hay que hacer?
13 January 2010 at 17:35
Hola Jaimin,
es posible que tu cd no sea el adecuado.
Puedes provar con este:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-powerpc+ps3.iso
No dudes en informarnos.
13 January 2010 at 17:45
bueno, ya me puse a bajármelo, entonces mi PS3 debe detectar el otheros.bdl de este iso que me mandaste, veradad? no debo ponerlo en una carpeta especial el otheros ni nada veradad? así como se baja lo quemo en el cd.
14 January 2010 at 08:54
A lo mejor me confundo, pero la iso ya deberia traerlo.
Si no fuera asi solo deberias grabarlo en un usb, en el path /PS3/OTHEROS/otheros.bld y con esto bastaria.
14 January 2010 at 09:06
Yo estoy pendiente de poder probar el tema en la mía, Francis me lleva bastante ventaja… pero bueno te puedo adelantar este link:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/
dónde encontrarás una ISO para bajarte directamente, yo te recomendaría que te bajaras primero la que se corresponda con el live CD que así no pasará nada
Saludos,
Ángel.
14 January 2010 at 17:31
Corrijo el comentario de Angel pues me he encontrado con el problema, bajad mejor el alternate si sois manitas, pues la ps3 se queda bastante muerta con el livecd. Si os atrevéis con el alternate, va mucho más fluido para instalar y el resultado final es el mismo
sino… seguid con el live cd, pero tarda bastante en instalarse.
Un saludo,
Francis.
14 January 2010 at 17:47
me ha pasado algo muy extraño, francis, instalé correctamente el iso alternative que me mandaste pero después de sacar elcd y reiniciar (porque asíu te lo pideelsistema como paso último) me aparece el sistema operativo del PS3, según yo me debe meter directamente al ubuntu, ya instalado, no? me fui a ajustes del sistema para predeterminar otro sistema operativo y me manda a kboot diciendome:
No default root fs was found, or one was found and it didn’t contains a message=config file.
If no roots was found, you can enter thr shell here whit ’sh’. Exiting will return you to this prompt. In the shell you can mount your rootfs as
/mnt/root/.
Reasons this may have happend include:
- No drive with a rootfs was actually found.
- Your rootfs does not have the correct volume label of “/”
_ Your rootfs is corrupt (use the rescure CD to fix this).
kboot: _
ya estoy arto de ese mensaje jajaja, qu{e es lo que está pasando? la instalación me fué muy bien pero despues de reiniciar no puedo entrar a ubuntu, es como si el sistema no cargó ni instaló nada :C
gracias por los que quieran ayudarme
16 January 2010 at 22:13
estoy un poco confundido con los pasos de reiniciar y bla bla bla, podria decirme alguien desde el principio q prenda el play (sin los pasos de instalacion) porque siento que ya se instaló pero siento que falta algo :S
tengo entendido q es:
-duda: ¿sería bueno que formatee con el formato rápido antes que todo? y con esto se deshace la particion de 10gb q ya he hecho? o como puedo volver el so del PS3 otra vez como si fuera nuevo?
-prender PS3 normalmente
-meter disco ubuntu
-ir a ajustes del sistema e instalar otro so
-duda: ¿cuando me salga el mensaje del PS3 q se ha instalado otro so, primero le doy “ok” y despues reinicio, o no tengo q reiniciar, o no le pongo “ok” y reinicio?
-despues de reiniciar (o no segun lo del punto anterior), voy a “sistema predeterminado” y le doy en “otro so”
-duda: aqui es donde sale el kboot y ¿le doy enter solamente o escribo algun comando?
-duda: cuando termina de instalar todo me dice que el reloj se ajustará a como está mi SO o algo asi, ¿ahí le doy aceptar?
-duda: el PS3 bota el disco y lo quito, al igual que algun pendrive que este enchufado, aqui es donde me lleva al kboot de nuevo y me dice lo de not found bootfs o algo asi (lo que te puso en el otro mail) y ya no puedo entrar a ubuntu porque ya no me deja entrar ni si quiera a la instalacion, sólo me queda ponerle “game” y dar enter para volver al PS3
en qué estoy mal, si alguien sabe gracias
29 November 2010 at 13:58
El problema que tengo es que al estar en la pantalla para instalar ubuntu le doy enter y se queda en esa pantalla, no avanza a la siguiente.
Podran ayudarme?????