phantomfj
April 12th, 2009, 05:28 PM
Hi all,
I have an older desktop (6 years?)with AMD Athlon XP2500+ 1.83 GHz, 1.5 G Ram, 120 G HD, running XP Home with SP 3. It is now causing me huge grief, will not run properly for extended periods of time, strange things happening all the time. Have tried all I can do, antivirus, spyware checks, etc.........nothing is showing up anymore, problems still persist. I have decided to wipe everything clean, and do a fresh XP install, with a dual boot to Ubuntu as well. Couple of questions; since I am starting fresh, what is the best way to set up partitions? And, since there will soon be a new version of ubuntu out soon, should I wait and install it when it comes out, or should I wait for the first upgrade/patch?
Have never used ubuntu, but I am not too bad at tech stuff...cross my fingers, lol......
I have an older desktop (6 years?)with AMD Athlon XP2500+ 1.83 GHz, 1.5 G Ram, 120 G HD, running XP Home with SP 3. It is now causing me huge grief, will not run properly for extended periods of time, strange things happening all the time. Have tried all I can do, antivirus, spyware checks, etc.........nothing is showing up anymore, problems still persist. I have decided to wipe everything clean, and do a fresh XP install, with a dual boot to Ubuntu as well. Couple of questions; since I am starting fresh, what is the best way to set up partitions? And, since there will soon be a new version of ubuntu out soon, should I wait and install it when it comes out, or should I wait for the first upgrade/patch?
Have never used ubuntu, but I am not too bad at tech stuff...cross my fingers, lol......