Hey, I'm sure studing the "<a href="http://ubuntuguide.org">http://ubuntuguide.org</a>" will help you much... You can ask your questions in mailing lists and forums also... Have a look at these shots also " <a href="http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/install/">http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/install/</a>" for the installation process... <div>On 9/18/05, TurboGrub <<a href="mailto:turbogrub_51@yahoo.com">turbogrub_51@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, In about three weeks I am returning to my home in Florida where I have waiting for me a new cd that someone burned for me that contains the new preview release of Ubuntu 5.10. I've been reading alot about it and Linux in general but I have absolutly ZERO experience with anything Linux. I don't even know one command. So here is my concern: I am going to install this Operating System on a hard drive I just purchased that has no Operating System on it. It is used and I can't tell you much about it other than it is 30 gb because I know little about partitioning and all of that. Hopefully that is what the install cd will do. Windows generally walks you through the install proccess and that's what I am used to. My last operating system, windows98, got infested with viruses and spyware until it was eaten alive depsite attempts to purge the system with whatever anti virus software I could get after the fact. I had no disk to re-install it so a friend gave me a copy of XP which started getting infected the day I installed it... these viruses must have known where to go back to somehow. Also, my hard drive was a little too small for XP and It was slow as hell and did all kinds of funky things. I have other friends that HATE xp also so I'm not too excited about trying it again. Enter Linux. Everything I have heard and Read about Linux stuff is pretty cool, but the one thing I seem to see is problems with the install here and there. Now, if you have experience with Linux, and I do not, then I guess you can pretty well figure it out as you go and finally get the thing up and running. So here are are my biggest fears: When I try to install this thing it's going to ask me stuff and I won't have the answers in "Linux Language"! On top of that, I won't be able to get online for help UNTIL I have it installed. What I am asking you kind folks out there for is ANY and I mean ANY advise on any problems I may encounter during the intallation, anything that would throw a total greenhorn off. I'm ready to jump in but I don't want to drown. I thank you in advance and look forward to any advice or comments. Martin Sargent ALL FISHING LURES ARE UNDER $2.00 AT MY E-BAY STORE! <a href="http://stores.ebay.com/martinshandcraftedfishinglures">http://stores.ebay.com/martinshandcraftedfishinglures</a> __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 <a href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Yours Sincerely, Mehdi H. <a href="http://opmdream.blogspot.com"> http://opmdream.blogspot.com</a>