newbie

[Andrew Hunter]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 15:50, Alfred wrote:
> Recently I helped another person here, that had a very much slower
> machine, and I found that Ubuntu 5.10 was about the newest version that
> would run on his machine. 6.06 and 6.10 took so long to boot up on his
> machine, that I never quite got to the desktop, with the install Icon on
> it!

In cases like this, it is recommeded that that you use the alternate install 
instead of the live cd.
>
> Alfred!
>
> On Thu, 2006-07-12 at 08:50 -0800, Don and/or Mila Trombley wrote:
> > Bill Davidson wrote:
> > > Don and/or Mila Trombley wrote:
> > >> I am wondering if the Hard drive needs reformatting, and if so, what
> > >> program and/or switches ( e.g. format/s ) do I need to perform this
> > >> task? Does Xubuntu have such a disk initialisiing program which I need
> > >> to utilize, before I am able to install?
> > >
> > > It does need reformatting and ubuntu will do that for you. The
> > > installer should ask about partitioning the hard drive at some point.
> > > It should ask if you want to reformat the entire drive, followed by one
> > > or more advanced options.
> > >
> > > Have you reached this point in the installer yet?
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> > quite frankly, I am getting to the point of wondering if there is
> > something wrong with the version of Xubuntu 6.08 iso which I burnt onto
> > the disk.... Just how long does it take to load everything onto the HD,
> > and get it up and running? This is about the second, or third week of
> > trying to get it to work on the Pentium 2 machine w/o any success. Don.

-- 
"First, God created idiots. But that was just for practise, then he made 
school boards."
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