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Okay! I'm completely new to Linux and here's what I want to do. I have MacBook that I use for my daily use that I don't want to change. I also have an old desktop that just sits there. It has windows XP on it and it's really just collecting dust. The thing is full of viruses and adware and spyware and God knows what else...

Anyway, I've downloaded the Ubuntu desktop ISO to an empty 2GB flash drive. here's my project: I want to completely erase everything (I mean EVERYTHING) on this old XP PC and install Ubuntu so that I can continue learning and coding. How do I do this using a flash drive and my MacBook. I can't seem to find someone with a similar project.

By the way, the old computer is a Dell XPS. Let me know if you have the answer!!!

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This is the official documentation.

It sounds like right now you have one big iso file sitting on the USB drive. That's not going to work to boot and start the installer. To set that up using your MacBook, you'll want to download unetbootin

That will let you extract the files from the iso onto the USB device in a bootable format.

At that point, you should be able to plug the USB drive into the computer you plan on installing Linux on, tell it to boot from the device (either by going into the BIOS and changing the boot order or selecting the boot menu by hitting F12).

This should boot into an installer which will walk you through the process. It's really straightforward, especially if you don't do a lot of customization at this point. You should be able to tell it to use the entire hard drive which will completely wipe out your existing Windows installation.

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