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    ubuntu Installation

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by germancasaretto, Sep 28, 2006.

  1. germancasaretto

    germancasaretto Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

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    Yesterday I received at home the free Ubuntu installation CDs I orderdered a month ago.
    This is my first time with Linux, and the truth is I'm not sure about how to install it.

    I made another partition on my disc (I use winXP on the main partition) but when I tried to install, it asked me to choose at least two partitions, one for system and another one for swap...

    Anyone can lend me a hand on this??
     
    germancasaretto, Sep 28, 2006
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  2. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    What you want to do is just partition it inside of ubuntu. You want two partitions made out of that secondary one you created. Make one ~500MB for the swap, and the other is for your system. Not too hard if you already figured out how to make a secondary partition.
     
    Pitabred, Sep 28, 2006
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    rockharder Notebook Evangelist

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    The Ubuntu install app will help you to do the partition and even load NTFS partition. Just delet the partition that you made from XP and let Ubuntu do it by itself.

    Generally speaking, if you have 512MB RAM, ~1024MB swap is optimum.
     
    rockharder, Sep 28, 2006
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Where do you get that, rockharder? You don't want 2X physical ram as swap. That would mean I'd have a 4GB swap partition on my new laptop. By the time you're using that much swap, your machine will have stopped. You probably shouldn't (unless you're running a server, then you should know what swap does better) ever have more than a gig of swap, max.
     
    Pitabred, Sep 28, 2006
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