How to install Ubuntu 16.04 - Vaa3D/Vaa3D_Wiki GitHub Wiki

Install from USB flash driver

PREREQUISITES: USB flash driver,UltraISO and Ubuntu 16.04

1.You should have an empty usb flash driver which is better more than 8GB.

2.You should have a software (UltraISO or any other softwares which have the ability to do so) to burn the Ubuntu 16.04 system to the usb flash driver.

3.A Ubuntu 16.04 system also is needed (you can get the .iso file at this LINK

Install Detail:Burn the Ubuntu 16.04 system to usb flash driver

1.Install the UltraISO software to another computer after you downloaded the UltraISO.

2.Insert the USB flash driver to the computer which you intend to install the Ubuntu 16.04 system.

3.Open the computer and press F2 to the "Setup",choose"Advanced" in the menu.After this operation,you will find "SATA Operation" option,you should change "ATA" to "AHCI".Finally,press "F10" to save configuration and reset.Then your computer will restart.

4.Press "F12" (depend on the model of your computer) to the BIOS option interface when your computer restart. After that,choose the way to run system from your usb flash driver (better in UEFI model).

5.Make sure the computer to identify the usb flash driver , you need amend something.

chose the second option which is "Install Ubuntu " after you enter the installtion interface.

Then press "Enter" to get the language-choose interface,choose your language.

6.Choose connect to a wi-fi network or not,two options are both ok,choose whatever you want. Continue to choose "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" or "Something else", the choice depends on your own will. (in this way, you can find the list of your hardware). Find and choose the hardware which you want to instal Ubuntu 16.04.

7.So far,So good.

After entering the Ubuntu 16.04 Installtion interface, following the flow of the Installtion (chose language "English" and input "Where are you").

8.Done After setting the username and password,wait for a while to finish all the install steps.After that,reboot.

Note

Remember not to pull out the usb flash driver in the first reboot.

After the first reboot,you can pull out the usb flash driver and the Ubuntu 16.04 system is on your computer now!

Install NVIDIA drivers

  1. Download drivers (named Nvidia_file.run) from here, and select "Linux 64-bit" option.

2.Turn off the default noueau driver and put it into blacklist. To Check if the noueau is still run: $lsmod | grep noueau It means the noueau is already shut down if there is no anything showed,you can skip to STEP 3. or you should put it into blacklist:

$sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-noueau.conf and input the following two sentences to the blacklist file:

blacklist noueau options noueau modeset=0

Then,save your change and close the blacklist file.

3.Install nvidia driver Check the available driver:

$sudo ubuntu-drivers list

and choose the nvidia-384:

$sudo apt-get install nvidia-384

4.Now you finish the install of NVIDIA driver

Through:

$nvidia-smi

to check the graphics information,if there is a graphics version information,generally it means you have the NVIDIA driver installed successfully.