Need help before I even start....

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Hi,

In about three weeks I am returning to my home in
Florida where I have waiting for me a new cd that
someone burned for me that contains the new preview
release of Ubuntu 5.10. I've been reading alot about
it and Linux in general but I have absolutly ZERO
experience with anything Linux. I don't even know one
command. So here is my concern:

I am going to install this Operating System on a hard
drive I just purchased that has no Operating System on
it. It is used and I can't tell you much about it
other than it is 30 gb because I know little about
partitioning and all of that. Hopefully that is what
the install cd will do. Windows generally walks you
through the install proccess and that's what I am used
to. My last operating system, windows98, got infested
with viruses and spyware until it was eaten alive
depsite attempts to purge the system with whatever
anti virus software I could get after the fact. I had
no disk to re-install it so a friend gave me a copy of
XP which started getting infected the day I installed
it... these viruses must have known where to go back
to somehow. Also, my hard drive was a little too small
for XP and It was slow as hell and did all kinds of
funky things. I have other friends that HATE xp also
so I'm not too excited about trying it again. Enter
Linux.

Everything I have heard and Read about Linux stuff is
pretty cool, but the one thing I seem to see is
problems with the install here and there. Now, if you
have experience with Linux, and I do not, then I guess
you can pretty well figure it out as you go and
finally get the thing up and running. So here are are
my biggest fears:

When I try to install this thing it's going to ask me
stuff and I won't have the answers in "Linux
Language"! On top of that, I won't be able to get
online for help UNTIL I have it installed. What I am
asking you kind folks out there for is ANY and I mean
ANY advise on any problems I may encounter during the
intallation, anything that would throw a total
greenhorn off. I'm ready to jump in but I don't want
to drown.

I thank you in advance and look forward to any advice
or comments.

Martin Sargent 



 

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