Just burn the new CD, boot it, hide the Gadgets (click on the four- color button top right), and turn off the screen save (it can potentially interfere with the installer). Then run the installer, and choose "assisted, use whole disk", and gOS will delete the current partitions, create new ones (one for the files, one for the swap- file), format them, and then it installs gOS in the new partition. Should not take much more than half an hour, one hour tops.
If you have continuous trouble with the partitioning, it sometimes helps to manually remove all partitions (with the CD's partition editor "gparted"). This sometimes happens if the hard-disk contains a corrupted Windows filing system (NTFS). In extreme cases I have seen, the CD player was bad (even though it seemed to work), and replacing it made all the difference. good luck. On 18 nov, 18:41, Indian_Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, i'll make a new copy and burn at lower speed. > > but, i do not really care for the old partition or personal files, > they all have already been backed up. i just want to get rid of > everything and start fresh (new slate with gOS) > > but i aborted the process this morning because it has been running > allll night long..so any new advice would be appreciated. > > On Nov 18, 9:46 am, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, you can't physically damage your hard-drive, but you could > > corrupt any existing older partitions (for example an old Windows XP > > partition) so that you may not have access to it anymore. That is why > > you should always make backups of files that are unique, and personal > > to you when doing something like this. > > If its just that you want to install gOS on a hard-disk that is empty, > > then nothing is lost, just reset and start over. > > > Checking for hardware shouldn't take more than ten minutes or so. > > > Make sure the CD you are using is clean, and is burned with maximum > > reliability (burned at a slow speed). > > > On 18 nov, 07:20, Indian_Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What should i do? i felt compelled to restart or do soemthing because > > > it seems to be stuck. But i am scared about damaging my harddrive. > > > > It has been in 94% and configuring hardware...can anyone give me some > > > advice?? thanks!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
