Yes absolutely one can install Ubuntu or any other OS without internet connection. Of course you have to have the Ubuntu .iso image file handy.
You can install it using USB stick with universal USB installer or from the hard disk you have downloaded to. But the latest updates won't be installed without internet.
No. It is entirely possible to install and run Ubuntu on a computer without ever having run Windows on it.
Do you mean, install Ubuntu and not enter the BIOS? To install Ubuntu using a CD, you need to enter the BIOS, setting the CD drive as the first boot. Otherwise, the computer will still boot off the hard-drive and ignore Ubuntu on the CD drive. If you meant, install Ubuntu without removing your Windows operating system? Then you need to set up a dual-boot between Windows and Ubuntu. Search the internet for fuller instructions on creating a dual-boot. If you simply want to try using Ubuntu without making any changes to the OS already on the hard-drive, either use the CD containing Ubuntu as an ISO file, known as a Live CD. Or, look up WUBI on the internet. Wubi will allow you to download and use Ubuntu as you would any other Windows file - without making any changes to the hard-drive.
No. After download and burn the Ubuntu 10.10 install disk, you can either TRY Ubuntu without affecting your Windows at all, or INSTALL Ubuntu to have them both in your PC. However, to install Ubuntu, you need to be careful. Make sure not to install Ubuntu to the Windows drive. That is all.
you computer will be slower than before you install ubuntu....
The only way you can install an operating system without a BootableUSB drive or disc like Ubuntu, is to install and run a virtual machine program. VMware has a good free one just for this. It will run on top of your primary operating system. To elaborate, its like havinganother computer run inside your computer.
You can update Ubuntu later as well without any issues. ... If there are other operating systems installed, you may get the option to install Ubuntu along with them in dual boot. But since your goal is to only have Ubuntu Linux on your entire system, you should go for Erase disk and install Ubuntu option. Read More:- hands-on.cloud
Ubuntu is an operating system, so just tell the installer to use the entire disk. However, an operating system is useless without software, and Ubuntu includes many software packages on a clean install.
Yes. Download a .deb file, and double click to install.
Ubuntu generally creates a different partition on your hard drive, formatted with the EXT4 filesystem. Therefore, without special software, you cannot access your files on Ubuntu from Windows. However, you can access your Windows files from Ubuntu without any trouble. When Ubuntu is installed, you get to choose whether to boot into Ubuntu or Windows when the computer turns on. That means that you cannot be actively logged into both Windows and Ubuntu on the same computer. However, you can install Ubuntu on a virtual machine, making the computer run Ubuntu inside an emulator in Windows. This makes it possible to run Ubuntu while you are logged into Windows. I do not recommend it, though. Ubuntu users and Windows users are in different operating systems, so you cannot just switch between them like you can in Windows accounts.
install ubuntu-restricted-extras from the package repositories or ubuntu software center.
Click the install as partition when installing Ubuntu.
You don't "install" Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a website you can access from any computer with a web browser, regardless of operating system.