Use the same user and password that you have created during the Installation. You’ll be greeted with an Elementary OS welcome screen and dashboard.
If you have chosen to install Elementary OS alongside Windows, then during your system gets booted, it will ask you to choose which OS, since you’ve installed Elementary OS, so choose that. Step 9) Elementary OS Login Screen and Desktop Dashboard Once the installation is completed, it will ask you to restart your system to complete the installation. Now Elementary OS will start getting installed as shown below: Provide your name, Computer name, username and password and click “Continue”Ĭlick on Continue Step 8) Installing Elementary OS In the next screen, you need to create your user account for Elementary OS. In the Next screen click on “ Install Now” option,Ĭlick on continue to write changes on disk, Step 6) Select Your Location and Keyboard LayoutĬhoose your location and click “ Continue”Ĭlick on Continue Step 7) Create Your User Account Now create a swap partition of size of 2 GB, Similarly create /home, / and /var partitions, To create a new partition, select the disk, then click on + symbol and specify the partition size as 1024 MB, its file system type as ext4 and mount point as /boot In the Next screen, click on “ New Partition Table” and then click on Continue… I am going to create following partitions on 40 GB hard disk:
In my Case I have 40 GB disk space and will create my own customize partitions for Elementary OS, so select “ Something Else” and the click on Continue. If you are installing Elementary OS in your Windows PC, then you will get the first option as “ Install Elementary alongside Windows”
In the next step, you’ll be asked to download updates while elementary OS is getting installed and also to install the third party software required to Flash, mp3, graphics and other media. Step 4) Preparing to Install Elementary OS Choose “ Install Elementary” as shown below in the picture. You will be provided with various options. Once you boot from the USB, you can see the following screen shown below.
Once you have created bootable usb drive, restart your computer and change the boot sequence to “Boot from USB” option Step 3) Elementary OS Welcome Screen On Linux Desktop, we can create a bootable USB using the following methods: And choose other options like the ones selected in the below screen.
Now once it is downloaded, open Rufus, and choose the downloaded ISO file in the location shown in the image below with arrows. You can download Rufus to create the bootable USB disk easily. It is available for free, but you can donate anything you wish or just enter 0 and click the “Download Elementary OS” button Step 2) Create a Bootable Disk To download the latest version, click here. Make sure to download the latest version of Elementary OS. Step-by-Step Guide to Install Elementary OS for Laptop/Desktop Step 1) Download Elementary OS Intel i3 or AMD dual-core 64-bit processor.In this article, we are looking at a step by step installation guide for installing Elementary OS in your laptop and desktop. Some of the features that makes this linux distro more interesting are Pantheon, a custom desktop environment along with various custom apps that comes with the distro including Music, Mail, Calendar, Photos, Videos, Files, Terminal, Scratch, Camera and many more. Elementary OS is a Linux based distribution based on Ubuntu that is becoming popular among users very quickly and is renowned as one of the best alternatives for Windows and MacOS.