Okay. I'll try burning it to a cd on my 2004 vintage machine. Maybe that
is the problem. I had used the new tower case desk top, less than 2 year
old, to burn it since I downloaded Ubuntu with it, but it has a DVD
drive. It was my understanding it is supposed to function both as a CD
and DVD burner, but maybe it does not work quite like it should for CD's.
Stan
On 3/9/2017 12:05 PM, 'T. Hunt' roversouth@bellsouth.net [LINUX_Newbies]
wrote:
>
> 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: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@commspeed.net>
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