Ubuntu on new hard drive

[Alfred]

Hi Laurie:

Your Computer will not see the Hard Drive if it was not Formatted. 

Making use of a Program, or Linux Distribution called GParted. You put
that into your CD or DVD Drive, and Boot up from that Drive.

Technical Stuff - (Go into the Bios - Install the Drive to the Computer.
With some Bios types these days this is Automatic - It will show where
you put the Hard Drive - Primary or Secondary, or Master or Slave, or if
you have a Compaq Computer you would use the Cable Select option for the
Hard Drive.
Then in the Part of the bios that Deals with Booting Order, put the CD
Rom or DVD Drive before the Hard drive. Then Save the Bios settings, and
Exit the Bios.)

With the computer off, and the GParted CD in the CD or DVD DRIVE turn on
the computer.

When the Splash Screen comes up, hit enter.

Technical Stuff - (GPARTED BOOTS up and reads the information on your
Hard Drive, if the hard drive is not formatted, it will show up as
"UNALLOCATED".
Click on the "UNALLOCATED" area in the list, of Partitions, then Click
on NEW from the Menu at the top of the screen. (Top left) A Dialog box
comes up and what you do is make a partition the Primary Partition if
there is nothing else on the Hard Drive. You can set it to EXT2 type of
Formatting.
Then you click on the Apply check mark Icon. Then it makes the partition
and formats it, in a few seconds. When GParted Stops, you click on done
in the Dialogue box. GParted will now scan the Hard Drive, and show you
that there is that Partition that you just made there. )

Then you click on the Exit Button, Bottom Right Corner, and GParted
Stops. You Take the CD out of the Drive.

Now you put your Ubuntu Install CD/DVD into the CD/DVD Rom Drive. Turn
on the Computer so that it Boots up. Depending upon what version of
UBUNTU you have there should be a list of about 6 options. Select the
first one. Live with Install. Then there are some questions to answer
about who you are, where you are, the time, etc. Make a note in your
Linux Diary about the questions and the Answers that you gave. You may
need these later again.

When the Desktop comes up there will be an Install Icon on the screen.
Click on it. If there was only that Partition you made, it will install
to it, if there were other Partitions too, you have to say which one you
want to use. There will be some options for using LVM -do not make use
of these. Select Something like make use of the whole space if you had
nothing else on the hard Drive, except the partition that you made.
There will be some questions about your ID and your Password. Pick a
word for an ID that is all lower case letters, and pick a Password that
is a Mixture of upper Case, and lower case letters and numbers. Some
versions of Ubuntu Simplified this.

Now you just sit back and let it do the Install.

The Desktop comes up on the next Reboot, without the ISO file (Your
CD/DVD in the drive) Now it will Work.

If you couldn't do the install, it might be because the Cables were
connected wrong or the power connection was not made right, or on IDE
drives the Jumper were not set right. Check to see that the Drive is
hooked up right for your machine.

Then start from the Top, and work down.

Alfred!

On Wed, 2007-18-04 at 18:23 -0700, Laurie Bell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  I put a new hard drive in a computer and tried to load ubuntu
> 6.06,but nothing happened. I'm fairly new to computers.Simple
> answers,nothing too technical please smile
>  Do you have to have an existing program in computer to load ubuntu?
>  Thanks in advance
>  Laurie
>