Here’s the Ubuntu desktop, booted for the first time.

Let it complete the reboot and reach the login screen.Įnter your username and password to log in. Hit tab to get to “Continue” and hit enter. iso file, you do not have to eject anything. To set up the real CD/DVD drive, hit Control+Alt to come out of Parallels, then click Devices, point to CD/DVD ROM 1 > Real CD/DVD ROM > (whichever real optical drive you have). iso file, Ubuntu considers it as the real drive. Unless you use a proxy, hit tab (to navigate to “Continue”) and hit enter.ĭepending on whether your clock is set to UTC, choose the option and hit enter. Hit enter.Įnsure that the disk chosen has the words “Virtual HDD” in it.Ĭonfirm partitioning by choosing “No” and hitting enter.Įnter your name, hit tab and then hit enter.Įnter your username (remember it, this is the login username), hit tab and then hit enter.Įnter password and hit enter, and renter your password for confirmation.Įncryption is not really important for a Parallels install, so choose No (by hitting Tab) and hit enter. Select the region and city, to configure the clock.įor partition, choose “Guided – entire disk”, which will be the default option. If you are on a home network, enter any name, I choose Ubuntu. The installer will proceed, with a progress bar. If you use a standard keyboard, choose USA under “Origin of keyboard”.Ĭhoose USA again – unless you have a non-standard layout. “Install Ubuntu” will be selected by default, hit enter again.Įnglish will be selected as the language, hit Enter again.įor keyboard layout, choose No (by using left/right arrow) and hit enter. Upon clicking “Start”, the installation will begin. Name it Ubuntu 9.10 (include the version number so as to identify it easily). Open Parallels Desktop and click File > New Virtual Machine.Ĭhoose CD/DVD image and point to the ISO file you downloaded. Some general instructions before getting started: hit left/right arrow to move from one option to another. Install Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) on Parallels Desktop (Mac OS X) 64 bit installer (choose this only if you have a Intel Core 2 or AMD64 processor).Intel x86 installer (choose this unless you want 64 bit Ubuntu).To get started, download the appropriate version of Ubuntu from the links below: When the final version is released, this will be updated to reflect any changes in install. This tutorial will guide you in installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) alpha using Parallels Desktop 4.0 on Mac OS X. Ubuntu 9.10 alpha has been around for some time now, and final version will be released later this year.

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