newbie

[Bill Davidson]

Don and/or Mila Trombley wrote:

> I am wondering if the Hard drive needs reformatting, and if so, what 
> program and/or switches ( e.g. format/s ) do I need to perform this task?
> Does Xubuntu have such a disk initialisiing program which I need to 
> utilize, before I am able to install?

It does need reformatting and ubuntu will do that for you. The installer 
should ask about partitioning the hard drive at some point. It should 
ask if you want to reformat the entire drive, followed by one or more 
advanced options.

Have you reached this point in the installer yet?

Bill