If you’re going to be installing Ubuntu on a physical server, you will have to download and burn the ISO image onto an external media like CD/DVD or flash drive…
On Windows machines, you may right-click the ISO image and select Burn disc image as shown in the image below… then choose the DVD drive with a blank DVD disc to burn to…
To burn to a Flash Drive, you may have to take a different route.. there are programs that should be able to help do you do that..
windows ubuntu burn image
After burning the image, transfer the DVD or Flash Drive to the computer you want to install Ubuntu on…
If you’re going to be installing on a virtual server, then just create the virtual machine and mount the ISO image and boot from it…
Ubuntu 18.04 install server
Step 2: Boot And Install Ubuntu Server
When you start up the server machine with Ubuntu ISO image, it should boot up the installation wizard… use the screenshots below to guide you…
Choose your preferred language to use to install Ubuntu…
Ubuntu server install
Then select your keyboard layout for the installation… the default is English (US) and continue
ubuntu server install
After that select Intall Ubuntu…
ubuntu server install
On the next screen, select at least one network card to configure… this should automatically install an IP address if there’s a DHCP server in your environment…
Ubuntu server install
Next, choose a proxy adress if there’s one… in most environments, this is not enabled.. so don’t type anything and continue…
ubuntu server install
Then choose to install Ubuntu on the entire disk… this is the easiest method… continue from there.
ubuntu server install
Next, select the disk to use to install on… and continue
ubuntu server install
Confirm the disk and continue… this is going to erase everything on the disk and install Ubuntu
ubuntu server intall
Confirm to delete everything on the disk and install Ubuntu.. after this, you’ll lose anything that was on the disk… so make sure the correct disk is selected and continue..
ubuntu server installation
Then create an account for the server… this will become an administrative account since the root account is not being used… also type the computer and and continue…
ubuntu server install
Wait until the installation is complete… then reboot the server.