shaneshane1 said:
I tried running it again and no luck i clicked on the install and walk away because it was taking forever?
after about 20 minutes the first WELCOME screen was available and i had to choose my country, but i couldnt do anything whenever i moved my mouse it was really slow and the CD drive sounded like it was trying to find a particular part of the CD, but it never worked?
What kind of machine power are we talking here? Semprons aren't high-end but faster ones should be OK. Right-click on My Computer and select Properties. IIRC, the box that pops up should tell you the Windows version, amount of memory, processor type, etc.
And on a Sempron, it is possible that running the Live CD might be quite (read: painfully) choppy.
is there a way to install/convert the original ISO file to my spare hard drive without a reboot using the CD drive???
EASY WAY FIRST: I'm going to tell you *first* what I think will have the greatest chance of success: go to
http://www.ubuntu.com and download the Alternate version for i386. Burn the ISO to CD at a slow speed on good media. Try booting from that. You won't have the Live CD feature, but the text-based installer works just as well.
You should probably check the downloaded ISO's MP5 checksum to make sure it's OK before you burn it. Use a tool like
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/. Get the MD5 checksum from **broken link removed** and open it. It has a few lines of text. Each line is an MD5 checksum followed by the name of the image file which it is for. Check that against the output of the md5sums.exe program.
That said, if you're dead-set on getting the ISO you have onto a hard drive and trying to install from that, (brief) instructions are here:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:...ntu_from_ISO_image_on_hard_drive_or_USB_stick
There is a catch, however--you will need a bootable Linux of some description, since you need to be able to boot via a bootloader where you can tell the kernel where to find the ISO you've copied onto the hard drive. More trouble than it's worth.
If your PC can boot from a USB stick, and you have one that you can wipe and fit the ISO image on, you could try this:
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
But I'd consider both options to be last resorts (and even then, I'd try the second one first).
[edit] when i downloaded it there were two download options one was for computers with sempron and ohers, and the other one was for computers with 64bit AMD and Intel computers.
well i dont know what mine really was, on my computer it says AMD Sempron
so i chose the first one that said sempron?
i dont understand what that means.
You picked the right one. Sempron is the name of AMD's budget processor family, something like Intel's Celerons.
Torben