Help with installation

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- 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, 2:05 PM
> Thank
> you guys very much for the help. Unfortuantly all though I
> am very good with computers I have never formated my HDD and
> I am not sure how to. I also do not know what a ext3 or 4
> is. Sorry for being such a challenge. I once tried to load a
> Linux os onto my PS3 from a CD but I was unsucessful. So if
> anyone could point me to a full tutorial on how to format
> and start over with Ubuntu I would be most appreciative.
> 

Download and burn the gparted iso and boot from it.  Its a gui and fairly intuitative.  It's also in the repos so you can install it and then read the man gparted to get some insight.  Just be sure not to format your HDD while your file system is mounted. You will have to google for gparted+ubuntu to learn the download site as I don't remember.  You can also partition the HDD from an alt CD install which I do most of the time.  Googling for ubuntu plus whatever subject is of concern will usually bring up just what you are looking for.  Google is your friend if you use it.
I would recommend you download, burn the alt CD iso and install from it.  Booting from the CD assures your file system is not mounted and the formatting and making a file system(ext3 or 4) is pretty easy.  Just don't commit to formating until you are sure it's what you want.  The alt CD is a text based install so just read carefully each part section as yyou go through the setup and you should be ok.  If you mess up, nothing lost as you have no OS installed yet, so just start over.  If you come across something you can't cope with then by all means post to the list on the issue. Hope this gets you started with Ubuntu.  Don't worry about about ext 4 file system unless you install Karmac where ext4 is default as I understand from reading the list.  Most people ust ext3 for Ubuntu.

> --- On Fri, 10/2/09, Leonard Chatagnier
> <lenc5570 at sbcglobal..net> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Help with installation
> To: "not for general discussionsUbuntu user technical
> support" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 6:49 PM
> 
> 
> 
> --- 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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