On 01/05/2013 07:41 PM, gcopper wrote:
I have a laptop withour windows, hd 1.5 TB 64 bit
Want to install Ubuntu 12.10 and the rest of 1.5 TB for different
downloads.
What are the steps to be successful?
Best Regards
gcopper
During the installation phase you'll come to a part that asks you if you
want to use the entire drive/along side something/something else.
Choose something else. The other words that might be seen are stuff
like custom settings or expert which are equivalent.
The purpose is to partition (thats the key vocabulary word) the hard
drive. To install an operating system like linux generally you'll want
to allocate 40GB for your / partition and mount your / partition (also
known as root partition) on that 40GB allocation. This / partition
contains all your installed apps and system software so 40GB should be
far more than enough for most folks. I don't recommend less than 15GB
unless you know what you're doing (some apps like games can get big).
Then to make things easy to install other linux os's along side you'll
want to make another partition for your personal data called the /home
partition and mount it accordingly. The /home partition should be large
to accommodate all your personal data like photos, videos, documents,
music, and etc. I recommend with a huge drive like that to allocate at
the very least 500GB to /home. Finally you'll want to create a smallish
/swap partition that is slightly larger than the size of your total
ram(a side note: swap is used for hibernation where the contents of ram
are dumped to the hard drive so the computer can recover from your last
place if you choose to hibernate your computer rather than shut it
down). The remainder of space on your drive should be left unallocated.
Here are the main points again.
/ = 40GB for applications+software
/home >= 500GB for personal data
/swap >= the size of your ram
and the rest to be left unallocated so that they can be used for later use.
I would highly recommend looking into articles online describing
multiboot as there is quite a lot to learn that can be very helpful.
Read into GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) so you can learn about how to
do stuff like chain loading and adding custom entries. Chainloading will
be a good friend to you as you can use your MBR (Master Boot Record) to
load other installs from their grubs installed to their partitions
superblock which means you won't need to update your Ubuntu's grub every
single time you get a kernel update in one of your installs. I would
learn about ubuntu a bit before going distro hopping as learning the
common tools and utilities can help make things easier when you try less
user friendly distributions.
I hope this helps with a very broad topic with lots to learn.
Regards,
-Matt
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