Help with installation

[Michael White]

Ok so this solves most of my problem. Now I do need to mention that the virus that is currently on the HDD is not allowing me to run EXE files. Is there a way for me to run the CD without booting up HDD or Windows?

--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:


From: Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: Help with installation
To: clanlaw at googlemail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 12:44 AM


On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 21:07 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
[snip]
> Karl is spot on here(!), no need to worry about formatting the drive,
> just boot off the Ubuntu CD and tell it you want to use the whole
> disk.  It will format it for you I think.

yep, exactly. The install process will format the drive for you...no
need to pre-format the drive with a gparted liveCD or anything.

Despite the numerous recommendations to use an alternate CD to install,
I'd still recommend getting a standard LiveCD and doing it from there.
If you have no interest in using the live Environment, then just pick
the 'install' option from the CD menu. It gives you a nice GUI installer
that (for me anyway) takes less time to set up a new system with, than
the alternate CD. BUT, most importantly, if at some point in the future,
if something goes wrong, you'll have that Live environment to fall back
on for troubleshooting and getting help.

I've never had a bad experience with either method, thats just my
preference.


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Andrew
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