

Next you will be asked to select an action. For this tutorial we will be using the default, English. Using the keyboard Arrow keys, select the language you would like to use and press Enter. When the computer has booted from the media you will see the following language selection screen appear. To begin the installation, insert the installation media into your computer and set the computer to boot from it. Please BACKUP ALL OF YOUR DATA prior to continuing!

IMPORTANT: The instructions on this page WILL result in your computer's hard drive being erased. The installation process will take some time to complete and some steps will take longer than others. The following steps will guide you through a basic installation of Ubuntu Linux Server 16.04.

I have used Debian server in the image below but it should be the same for Ubuntu as well. Here's a screenshot of what it looks using the above commands.

No message is displayed when the shutdown is cancelled. You can cancel the scheduled shutdown with option -c: sudo shutdown -c This will schedule a shutdown a minute from your current time. You can use the shutdown command without any options. There are other commands that can be used to shutdown Linux from the shell.īut first let's take another look at it this command. Linux shutdown command is not the only way to shut down Ubuntu or other Linux from the terminal. Keep in mind that you must have a way to power it on back again otherwise prefer to reboot remote Ubuntu servers. Some people prefer to use shutdown -h now but that's not required as both refer to power-off. You need to be a sudo user or root to shut down a Linux server because it is an administrative task. To shutdown Ubuntu server immediately, you can use the shutdown command like this: sudo shutdown now Yes.
