On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since the hard drive is wiped clean, do I have to perform some sort of > low-level format before I can install the Ubuntu operating system from the > ususal iso disk? > > The short anwer, petem001's somewhat cryptic response not withstanding, is No, you do not. The only cases I know of where a low-level type format is needed these days is if the hard disk was in some sort of software or some hardware RAID arrays that write metadata to weird locations on disk. Sometimes this can cause the partitioner to choke. But in about 95% of the cases, maybe it's more like 99%, all you need to do is as petem001 said, boot the installer, and when it asks you about partitions, tell it to use the whole disk. The installer should take care of the rest. That said, I always recommend creating a separate /home partition simply because it allows you to more safely do re-installs (you can always re-install the root fs while preserving /home with your user specific data).
