Two tiny typos in Breezy Ubuntu Installation Guide

[Kevin Cole]

Kevin Cole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First a question: Do I get any karma in Launchpad
> for finding tiny, tiny typos in old documentation? ;-)

Seems there is a precedent for filing such stuff in Malone.
So now it's filed as bug 4637.

https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/4637

> Anyway, I hope I'm not repeating something that's already been
> noticed and taken care of. Just so it doesn't creep into later
> documentation, I thought it might be worth mentioning. In the
> "Ubuntu Installation Guide" distributed on the Edubuntu
> CD, "Section 6.3.2.1. Partitioning Your Disks" has an
> awfully big swap partition on hdb... And while we're on
> the subject, partition #7 is also larger than the physical
> disk.  ;-) (Change hdb7 and hdb8 partitions from "G" to "M"
> and everything should add up close to 80 GB.)
> 
> (From /doc/install/manual/en/ch06s03.html#di-partition)
> 
>   IDE1 master (hda) - 6.4 GB WDC AC36400L
>         #1 primary   16.4 MB     ext2       /boot
>         #2 primary  551.0 MB     swap       swap
>         #3 primary    5.8 GB     ntfs
>            pri/log    8.2 MB     FREE SPACE
> 
>   IDE1 slave (hdb) - 80.0 GB ST380021A
>         #1 primary   15.9 MB     ext3
>         #2 primary  996.0 MB     fat16
>         #3 primary    3.9 GB     xfs        /home
>         #5 logical    6.0 GB     ext3       /
>         #6 logical    1.0 GB     ext3       /var
>         #7 logical  498.8 GB     ext3
>         #8 logical  551.5 GB     swap       swap
>         #9 logical   65.8 GB     ext2
> 
> (I assume this is an appropriate place to report typos, etc.
> If not, sorry 'bout that, and please let me know where to
> report stuff.  Also, if that's already been reported, where
> would I find it?)
-- 
Kevin Cole
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