Ubuntu – Install Intel HD graphics

you have 2 others main choices:

• http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/ to download the "alternate" version for your architecture
• the use of a minimal version of Ubuntu and later on install all packages you need https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

this are the easiest and quick and dirty solutions for an installation of Ubuntu, there is also a third way via PXE but is more tricky compared to this 2 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot

The Intel cards are automatically detected and installed in Ubuntu, no need to install further drivers. See this question if you want them to be recognised in System Info.

However, if you feel that you want to install a more recent driver (I dont recommend this if you do not know how to recover from a broken graphics driver) you can add the xorg-edgers fresh X crack PPA and update your system with the packages from there.

To do that open a terminal and use these commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Reboot with

sudo reboot

Again, do this only this with extra caution!