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mebrittan
February 15th, 2009, 03:05 AM
I have a desktop system on which I installed Ubuntu 8.04 several months ago without any difficulty and it ran great. Then as an experiment I install Windows 7 Bata and found to be another poor effort by MS and decided to install Ubuntu 8.10.

I downloaded the CD and started the install which starts out fine; I can select the language, the Time Zone and then the keyboard.
But when I get to the Prepare Disk Space I select “Guided – use entire disk” things slooow down. After hours I will get to the Name, User name. Password and Computer name window. More hour pass and I may be able to enter my name and some hours after that the install will crash.

I have tried to install Fedora 10 and that fails also, but I can install and run Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Bata and an old Linux, “Linspire 5.0”.

I don’t want any of these, I want Ubuntu, what am I doing wrong? Send help!

Mike

Ripose
February 15th, 2009, 08:08 AM
Boot from the live CD and use Gparted (partition manager) to delete the old partitions, then click on install.

WARNING: This will delete everything on the hard drive!

mebrittan
February 15th, 2009, 01:36 PM
Many thanks for the responce but how do I invoke Gparted?

Mike

Ripose
February 15th, 2009, 07:39 PM
Just go through your menu, it should be under Administration, look for Gparted or Partitioner