Topic: How to Format a Harddrive with Ubuntu?

[sam]

it should be.... hmmm

[mistybear]

Update; it won't boot from CD, goes straight into Ubuntu. Apparently you can't set the bios to boot from CD, laptop is about 4/5 years old.   

[sam]

that seems rather odd as that's a feature that you have been able todo for a very long time. Are they sure they can't at least change the boot order? I'm just wondering if its a CD issue. Can you boot from the ubuntu install cd?

[mistybear]

They don't have the Ubuntu CD.

How do you change the boot order?

With them not being here and communicating via msn, I'm not really sure what they have tried.

[Sandra]

As Sam says it has to boot from the CD.
Can they access the bios as laptops can be awkward to find the correct key to press often you need to press the Fn key plus F2 or similar.
When te laptop starts up there should be something on the first screen that says press XXX for setup, thats the bios entry procedure.

Logging onto msn now but cant stay long
 

[mistybear]

Thanks Sandra. I'll be interested to find out what is exactly wrong with it.