Re: Help with installation

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.

--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Help with installation
To: "not for general discussionsUbuntu user technical support" <ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 6:49 PM



--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Michael White <enlightenedshadow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Michael White <enlightenedshadow@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Help with installation
To: "not for general discussionsUbuntu user technical support" <ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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