How long before you give up.

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:21:43 -0400
Patrick Newberry <PNewberry at habitat.org> wrote:

> I've got one machine right now that had windows 2000 server on it. Didn't know password.
> I put in the xubuntu disk and it's been going for about 8 or more hours. At this point I have no  display but the cdrom drive is spinning.

It might help us to help you if you gave some hardware information. The
two most important things would be:

* How much RAM does the machine have?
* What is the cpu speed? 200 MHz? 400 MHz? and so on...

Are you using the so-called "alternate" disk installer or the "desktop"
live CD ?

[snips]

> Do I need for format the c: drive before I put in the xubuntu
> install  disk?

No, the Xubuntu installer should handle formatting, partitioning, and
creating file systems...

Peter

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