It will reformat if you chose that option. If it froze at the language
screen, you didn't get that far yet.
Tom
On 3/9/2017 11:34 AM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
[LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
>
> I had a previous post about a web server and Linux. I decided to learn
> about installing Linux and creating a web server using my 2004 vintage
> Pentium 4 desktop. Once I understand everything and get it to work, if I
> then think I need a new computer, then I can get it.
>
> I could not use ver 16 of Ubuntu because it is 800M in size and my blank
> cd disk can only handle up to 700M. The desktop does not have a dvd
> drive, only a cd drive. So, I downloaded ver 14 which is less than 600M.
> I tried installing it last night and it got hung up on the first page,
> the language page. The Enter key does not work, the arrow keys do not
> work, and the mouse is not active. I left it this way overnight and it
> still was hung up and so Ubuntu was not in the process of doing
> something. It is just hung up for some other reason. The hard drive is
> 30G and has Windows XP on it. All the programs on it use up almost all
> this space. Does Ubuntu require a reformatted drive to install to? I
> thought it would reformat the disc itself.
> Stan
>
Posted by: "T. Hunt" <roversouth@bellsouth.net>
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