Partitioning Question

[Tee Jay Rosene]

> you can select whatever number and type of partitions you want created
> during the installation.  But you would will have to select the manual
> partitioning option during the installation and define them yourself
> instead of letting the installer take over all the left over space for
> Ubuntu.
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> Daniel Robitaille


Hi Tee Jay,

I drove everybody nuts with that exact question in Jan-Feb. Those e-mails
> should be in the mail list archives. I have a large HD as well. I created
> a
> 40GB Windows OS partition for XP, a second 40 GB partion for my Ubuntu OS,
> then for the rest of the space I used partions and extended partions for
> data. There were a bunch of questions around what type of formatting for
> the
> partitions, NTFS, EXT2, etc, and whether to create seperate
> partitions/directories for the home/root directories etc.
>
> Everybody gave really good detailed advice in thier replies, I hope you
> can
> find it. If let me know if you can't and I can forward them
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> Darren


Thanks. And thanks. The reason I ask is because I tried dual booting a
machine with Ubuntu and Kubuntu once, and although both partitions were
physically on the drivem upon boot up the machine would only boot into the
last one installed.
I obviously did something wrong.
Although I'm going to back everything from Windows, I don't really feel like
reinstalling Windows should something arise (because that takes ages
compared to Ubuntu!) I just want to leave it (for my wife) and have Ubuntu
for all of my needs.
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