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Old 05-11-2014, 11:22 AM   #1
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Installing a new distro over ore moving existing and start over


A 'knowledgeable friend' managed to install SL (simple Linux) on my machine.
This has proved be very difficult to use because of its tiny style and me having impaired vision.

So I need to get back to Ubuntu.

Whilst I have several magazine disks,they are designed to run from a Windows platform-so do not seem to 'fireup' from within Linux .
I have also downloaded various ISO's and burned them all to no avail so far.
Your thoughts much appreciated.
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Old 05-11-2014, 11:29 AM   #2
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You don't (with some odd exceptions that aren't relevant here) install Linux from within another operating system. You tell your machine's BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD drive first, put in the install disc, then boot into either the installer or live environment. See here for details:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/deskt...ubuntu-desktop
 
Old 05-11-2014, 11:34 AM   #3
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It might help if you were a bit more forthcoming about the problems of using a bootable DVD. What exactly was the problem?
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