The installation of 12.04 is requiring 4.4GB of free space (which I don't even have 1kb of space), even though the documentation online says 44MB is all that's needed....
and requires an internet connection... (but no wifi support, or atleast not one I can get to work :/ )
Problem is how do I format this damn thing so that I have some space?
there appears to be no personal stuff on the computer. no pics, music, documents, games, files, nothing, but the entire 3.8GB HDD is in use.
The HDD Assesment says that DISK IS BEING USED OUTSIDE OF PARAMETERS
Looking at the SMART data it says that Attributes: 32,41,46,48,54 are Failing and Attributes 68 & 111 have failed in the past while 178 = used-reserve-blocks-chip has failed in the past
Does this mean that the HDD is no good and needs to be replaced? or is this stuff that a Format may fix? and how do I format this thing, because it won't let me do it from the 12.04 running off the HDD, and I can't figure out how to do it before it boots into Ubuntu 8.04 on the HDD or 12.04 on the USB.
HELP.