Help with installation

Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 2 18:49:34 UTC 2009


--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Michael White <enlightenedshadow at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Michael White <enlightenedshadow at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Help with installation
> To: "not for general discussionsUbuntu user technical support" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 1:35 PM
> Thanks
> for the reply, however I am not looking to back up anything.
> I just want a clean wipe of everything that is on the HDD. I
> can't afford another HDD right now so this one will have
> to do. I want to fully erase everything that has to do with
> Windows and all file data back to the original drive so that
> I can then load Ubuntu on it. I don't care what gets
> deleted (except whatever I need to allow me to start from
> scratch).
> 
Then your solution should simply be to format your
HDD and install an ext3 or 4 file system then install ubuntu from a live or alt CD,  I personally prefer the alt CD and do a fresh install on a clean partition.  HTH.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net






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