It includes an icon on the desktop
that enables you to install Ubuntu to your system after walking through six simple configuration
screens (discussed later in this chapter).
The following sections describe the desktop and server features in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).
Ubuntu Installer
The Ubuntu installer has helped make Ubuntu a tremendously popular distribution, showing
Ubuntu??™s commitment to usability right out of the gate. The desktop Ubuntu install process does
an excellent job of detecting hardware and system configuration information. Ubuntu??™s Desktop
Install CD ???test-drive??? needs only a few additional bits of information in order to install its whole
set of software packages to your hard drive. The other Ubuntu CDs feature a more traditional, textbased
installer that should be familiar to users of any Debian-like system and are designed to work
on almost any system with VGA graphics and 128MB or so of memory. This chapter focuses on the
graphical Ubuntu installer, but the text-based installer on the Server and Alternate Desktop Install
CDs is also quite easy to use.
Many ease-of-use features are built into the Ubuntu installer. For example, if you are not sure which
type of keyboard you have, you have the option to type a few keys (as prompted by the installer)
and have it try to figure out the type of keyboard you have.
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