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I've got Linux Mint 17.1 on my laptop installed by someone else and I want to replace Mint with Ubuntu. I don't have a Windows system on it - just Mint.

Can anyone tell me - in newbie friendly terms - how to do that?

When I type df -h in terminal, the result is as below:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1  684G 189G 460G 30% / 
none       4.0K 0    4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev       1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs      386M 1.4M 385M 1% /run
none       5.0M 0    5.0M 0% /run/lock
none       1.9G 32M  1.9G 2% /run/shm
none       100M 28K  100M 1% /run/user
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Since you don't have a home partition and don't seem experienced, just copy all your personal files to an external HDD.

Meanwhile, download Ubuntu. You can just click this link and create a live USB stick with it.

Boot up Ubuntu from the USB stick, click on "Install Ubuntu". Connect to the internet (you don't need to do anything if you're connected via lan but have to choose the wifi network and enter the password if you want to connect via wifi and Ubuntu doesn't read this information from your Fedora installation automatically), check on the boxes which offer you to download stuff during the installation, and then choose "Erase everything and install Ubuntu". There isn't much more to do after that and it's really easy.

After the installation completed, you'll be asked to reboot. Do that, remove your USB stick, and copy your files back once the installed system booted up.

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