[ubuntu-uk] dual boot with 2 HDDs

[Barry Titterton]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:51 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks Rob, just what I needed. I have bookmarked that page.

Barry