Help with installation

[mohamed beyrem makhlouf]

i happy for you
i had the same problem 4 years ago and i totally migrate  to linux
i think that ubunto / kubunto is the best os  for a beginner
be care only about  drivers (same drivers are not supported in linux)
check it first  !!


2009/10/2 Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
> Michael White wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>> --- On Fri, 10/2/09, dean <deanubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: dean <deanubuntu at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Help with installation
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 6:25 AM
>>
>>
>> Michael White wrote:
>>> Hi, I have been thinking about making a switch from Windows to Linux
>>> for awhile now. Yesterday my desktop caught a really bad case of
>>> spyware. Now all I want to do is format my hard drive and load Ubuntu
>>> onto the desktop. I was wondering if you guys would be able to assit
>>> me in how to do so. I was running Windows XP SP3. Any help would be
>>> appreciated.
>
>        Your hard drive may have more than one partition. But if it
> had just windows then it took the entire first partition.
> Since you do not want to save anything from windows, put your
> LiveCD inthe cd device and when it comes up after some simple
> questions it will ask if you want to install  linux on the
> entire hard drive. Say yes and follow the instructions.
>
>        Today it is hard to get any updates. So wait till Sunday to
> try for them.
>
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
>
>>>
>>>
>> If your thinking of doing a totally switch with no Windows I would
>> probably recommend getting a spare drive to back your data up so you can
>> convert any drives to ext3/ext4.  I find NTFS-3G to be a CPU hog and it
>> isn't needed if your going 100% linux.
>>
>>
>
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