Partitioning and formatting New HDD

[Daniel Saunders]

You want to enable large disk support.  Linux can read very large
disks depending on which file system is to be used.  I would imagine
that if you select 'no' it would force you to split the drive into
lots of small partitions or not allow you to access anything past the
512MB mark.  Definitely choose 'y'.

You don't need to make a separate swap partition in fdisk - during the
install process for Ubuntu an appropriately large partition (about
twice the size of your RAM up to a top limit of 1GB IIRC) will be
created.  If you wish, you can overide the default Ubuntu partitioning
scheme during the install process, but it's not normally necessary.

Daniel