I have an old PC that got eaten alive by viruses and EVERYTHING, except core system files are gone or corrupted by a virus and I dont feel like fixing it. I’m thinking about wiping my hard drive completely and setting up Fedora on it to use as a workstation. Will I be able to install from a Live-CD with no operating system already on it? How? it currently has WinXP Service pack 3.
Yes. If you pop a LiveCD into the machine with XP currently installed on it, then when you go to install, just format one partition as EXT3 (Or whatever you need for Fedora) and another say 2 Gig partition as Swap, then that will wipe XP for you. Once you install Fedora after doing that, XP will be completely gone.
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If you want install a linux distribution, you can just pop the cd in, follow the partitioning instructions, and it will do the rest for you. Some distro’s require more knowledge than others, however fedora is a pretty easy one to figure out. Just pop in the dvd and go
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