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For the record, I thought I would give 21 a chance, so installed that.

It all worked fine. HDMI port worked, boots straight in. Not sure what the issue is with 20 but whatever it is, it is fixed...

Going to try and provide as much info here as I can.

I bought a new laptop to put Linux on specifically, it is a G713 Rog Strix, AMD CPU, Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU.

I followed the instructions in...

Yep got me thru the whole viewing files on Windows issue to.

Also worked with Win Vista x64 Ultimate even though there was some common sense involved.

Thanks very much for the guide.

Ok after a bit of working, yep got that going.

Big thanks for the heads up about Samba and thanks to Stormbringer who wrote the how-to guide to Samba that took me through it.

Had a look at what Samba was, going through a 'how-to' guide at the moment.

I was able to ping the IP addy, I wasn't able to tracert the IP addy, but that is more becuase I don't know how to, rather then there was any issue with tracert.

I also know i made the mistake...

Ok found the IP address.

//IPADDRESS

does not work to open up the network. I am guessing a firewall issue, but I don't know a way around it.

I am hoping that given the longevity of...

I would add that I have always struggled to find my networks on the Vista machine from any other machine that wasn't running vista.

Thing is in windows, I know how to run a cmd, ipconfig, find the...

I have Ubuntu installed on one machine, I have checked it is connected to the internet, I can browse the web.

it must therefore be going through my Router.

However, when I am looking for it...

Well now it seems to be stuck on 99% installation saying:

Running post-installation triggers libc6

Been stuck on that for about 5mins now.

Once I knew it was possible, I tried deleting the partition and that gave me the 'freespace' to create 2 new partitions.

Installation underway, thanks for the help.

Ok that worked up to a point thanks for that.

if I make one of the partitions a swap drive it warns me that it will be formatting that drive.

I would rather it did not. It does not give me...

So should I edit the partition and make it 2 partitions? It is 100gig all just for operating system and programs, it is not my main PC either so will only have a couple of programs loaded.


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Ok I finally got Gparted to run after formatting the first partition, known as C: previously, now known as /dev/sda1

During installation it has come up at step 4/7.....Use the whole disk? I have...

Ok.

No joy with Gparted at all in anyway, so what I have done is put in a Windows XP disk with the idea that I will format C: and then attempt Ubuntu again.

Perhaps it is just that C: is such...

Since other people were saying that it started in just a very short while, I am going to have to go ahead and say....yeah the liveCD of just Gparted is also hanging. Just nothing happening, just...

OK i started it with straight default settings and it is running now, tell me if I was supposed to do something else.

Thanks :)

The other machine seem to be hanging when I try and run Gparted. I am leaving it for a few minutes while I make this post. Just incase it is just slow.

The results for sudo fdisk -l

Disk...

I have an AMD+ 2.4ghz with 3gb of RAM.

Yeah I used the installation CD as a LiveCD and it worked fine i was able to mess about on the desktop and check other files on other drives.

They are very large partitions already on the drive,...

I am trying to install Ubuntu on a PC with existing partitions and an existing install of Windows XP.

I choose my time zone and then choose the keyboard I wanted and I am sure it said something...

Am I in the right forum? As i need to get somewhere and basically settle in and get spamming with my inevitably stupid and idiotic questions that will seem inane if not baffling to those that answer...