No I'm not going to tell you how to follow the installation procedure for one of the many ISO images available at "http://mirror.cs.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/". Internet search will provide

A few suggestions I do have are:

  1. If your looking to exactly match the CSCF deployed systems,
    When you get to the "Updates and other software" screen, in the "What apps would you like to intall to start with?" area select "Minimal Installation".
  2. If you have two monitors (dual headed)
    Turn one of them off until the install is done. You can then add the second monitor using a "TwinView" Configuration (NVidia graphics card) in your "X Server Settings" (look in "System" -> "Administration" menu) after the install is finished.
  3. If the setup process does not detect all of the hard drives. It is likely that the motherboard supports on-board "SATA" Raid (winmodem styled cheap raid controller) that "dmraid" doesn't recognize properly (it doesn't seem to matter if the disk controller BIOS setting is SATA, RAID or AHCI). You need to remove Linux dmraid package from the install process.
     
    Boot the system with the "Try Ubuntu ..." selection and enter in a terminal window:
    sudo apt-get remove dmraid
    Now perform the setup by clicking the "Install Ubuntu ..." desktop icon (upper left corner of screen).
  4. If you're going to be connecting the host to one of the CSCF AD domains
    Make sure any local user accounts you create are unique (suggestion is to add a unique prefix like "local-" or "my").
  5. Check "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/hosts"
    Make sure the host name is the Fully Qualified Name minus whatever your official domain-name is, e.g. "cs.uwaterloo.ca".

So go ahead and do the base install, stopping just after the first reboot.