Yet another newbie question

Keano

I partioned my drive so I can run Ubuntu.
I have tried a few different options when trying to install Ubuntu. However I am stuck at this point - see attachment. I have tried a few options but have gotten errors about cluster sizes etc

Thanks for any help given.

stereo_steve

Can you post another picture without the edit partition window in the way?

In a liux system you want to have two partitions. A / partition where your system files go and a /swap partition which is the equivalent of windows virtual memory. If your RAM gets full than swap space can be used.

I also recommend that you also have a /home partition. This means that all system files will go to / and all your personal files will go to /home. In the future if you want to change linux distributions than you can install to the / partion and when it loads up all your personal files will be there because they are in the /home partition.

So your looking to have something like this.....

Partition .........Type...........Mount Point..........Format........Size Used

/dev/sda?........ext3............./..........................tick............I'd use ~ 6/7 Gigs
/dev/sda?........ext3............./home.................tick............what ever space is available
/dev/sda2.......ntfs............../media/windows.....no tick.......what ever it lists


Do you see the line with file type ntfs? I have named it /media/windows This means that an icon with the name windows linking to you partition will be on your desktop. You could equally have called it /media/movies etc

I also see you have a FAT partition mention. This is probably a memory card in your pc
Does this help you out or are there more specific questions you have?

Orion

stereo_steve wrote: »

Partition .........Type...........Mount Point..........Format........Size Used

/dev/sda?........ext3............./..........................tick............I'd use ~ 6/7 Gigs
/dev/sda?........ext3............./home.................tick............what ever space is available
/dev/sda2.......ntfs............../media/windows.....no tick.......what ever it lists

I'd change that slightly:

Partition .........Type...........Mount Point..........Format........Size Used

/dev/sda?........ext3............./..........................tick............I'd use ~ 6/7 Gigs
/dev/sda?........ext3............./home.................tick............10-20Gb
/dev/sda?........ext2............./swap.................tick............1Gb ever space is available
/dev/sda2.......ntfs............../media/windows.....no tick.......what ever it lists

Keano

Finally got around to trying what was suggested but the screen shot shows what I get. Not sure if I should proceed and cause some damage???

Cheers

Orion

not sure myself. I'll have a read about it and come back to you if nobody else does first.

Keano

I hit ignore but get yet another error. Not a good evening for me.

NotMe

hmm your swap partition shouldn't be type ext2. It should be Linux swap or something like that.

Keano

NotMe wrote: »

hmm your swap partition shouldn't be type ext2. It should be Linux swap or something like that.

I changed it the type to swap

Not sure if thats what I supposed to do but it worked!