hi there,
my winxp media centre just ground to a halt, and spyware, anti-virus programs are no longer fixing things.
Time to install linux.
Ubuntu installed so smoothly on the last pc I installed it onto, that this time, I thought I'd have an attempt straight away without researching the hardware.
I put my ubuntu disk in, twiddled with the bios to get it to boot from the disk, and things were going fine, until the screen went red:
error returned when trying to install initrd-tools
Check /var/log/messages or virtual console 5
can anyone give me a clue as to whats going on here.
The failed install step was the base system, although it came after a tone of other things.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, this is my main computer, and this install should make me m$ free.
Additonally, whilst I'm asking, can you tell me if I'm even doing the right thing? Will installing ubuntu over the top this way kill whatever rootkit or other horrible code was killing the old os? I'd downloaded the recent temporary patch and tried all kinds of thing to clean it - does ubuntu totally clean house?
am i being a total pillock for not researching the hardware first?
thanks again for any replies!
howard