[ubuntu-uk] dual boot with 2 HDDs

[Rob Beard]

On 27/07/10 13:21, Barry Titterton wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 17:55 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> When installing, it's dead easy. Choose custom disk partitioning, give
>> about 10-20GB to the root partition (called "/") and the rest to
>> /home, leaving about 2GB at the end for a swap partition.
>>
>
> Liam,
>
> I didn't find it dead easy when I tried to install Lucid with a separate
> Home directory on a spare desktop a few weeks back. When I got to the
> manual install screen I was expecting something like the GParted
> graphical interface but I found the screen that was I was presented with
> rather confusing. None of the sites that I had Googled before hand
> showed the actual install screen, nor explained what all of the options
> meant. I chickened out and opted for the default, all-in-one
> installation. Subsequent research suggests that I should have used the
> live CD to run GParted and partition the disc before the installation.
>
> Barry
>
>

Try this guide, step 4 onwards covers separate /home partitions. 
Although bear in mind it does assume the hard drive is either blank or 
that you don't want to keep anything that is on the drive (for instance 
an existing installation of Windows etc).

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Ubuntu-10-04-LTS-141550.shtml

Rob