I probably should have clarified a little more... Thanks for all the replies. I was assuming that I could fdisk the drive during the install process. I can (and probably will) use a Live CD that contains GParted to wipe the drive and try again. Thanks, Robert <div>On 1/23/06, Robert Aldridge <<a href="mailto:bamarob55@gmail.com">bamarob55@gmail.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;"> This probably isn't an Ubuntu-specific issue, but thought I'd start here to see if someone could help... My mom's Windows 98 PC is hosed, so I offered to put Ubuntu on it for her. She mainly has the computer so the grandchildren can play simple games on it (No latest/greatest accelerated 3D stuff. Just fun, simple games for the kids.) So, I take an Ubuntu 5.10 install CD and boot from it. When it gets to the point where it should bring up the "Partition Disks" screen, it seems to be detecting disks and the progress meter goes to 100%, then the same screen repeats but this time the progress meter only goes to 52% where it hangs. I tried multiple times but couldn't get past this. This is a stand-alone box that isn't connected to any network. Does the installer need to pull something from the network to get the partitioner to work? I couldn't imagine it having this limitation, but am tempted to take the PC back to my place and plug it in to my router during the install. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Robert </blockquote></div>