XP to Xubuntu 8.04

bendoggy · Joined: Apr 28, 2008 Posts: 1

I'm trying to convert a primary XP OS on a machine to a Xubuntu Hardy Heron OS completely, meaning no XP at all. Just linux. I have Googled the living hell out of this and came up with nothing useful. Any idea's of what the best way is, to make it what I want it to be?

jeber · Joined: Dec 19, 2002 Posts: 4198 Location: The Village

It should be as simple as putting the Ubuntu disk in the drive, booting the computer from the CD-ROM drive then allowing Ubuntu to install to the entire disk. The installer will do the reformatting for you.

dday · Joined: Jun 06, 2008 Posts: 1

I did a very similar thing twice in the last year. I popped in the Ubuntu CD, booted from it and wrote over Windows98 and over Windows XP. It went smoothly both times and has been stable and a breeze to use ever since.

I particularly liked using Xubuntu on the older (Windows98) machine, as its resources were more severly limited. 192 MB of RAM, 6 GB of disk and who cares?

Don't forget to set up your swap partition and you should be all set.

julie-d · Joined: Aug 25, 2008 Posts: 4

There are two ways to do this; run the fdisk utility from the Recovery Console, or boot up with a copy of Xubuntu and do a clean install.Good luck.