Complex hard drive partitioning

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

What on Earth do you need 4GB of swap for? If you need that much swap
space you should buy more ram. My linux runs extremely easily with 512mb
RAM and 400mb swap. Also your boot partition is huge, wouldn't about
100mb be more than enough?

Reducing the size of these two partitions should yield you enough space
for an ubuntu install (I find 6GB is ample for a standard install + a
few extra apps). Are you sure you can't salvage any space from the
gentoo partition? I have a hunch you must have about 10gb free on that??

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:34 -0600, Ian Kabeary wrote:
> Hi there,
> I would like to install Ubuntu on my laptop (Satellite A70), (as the
> only other computer I have is an iMac and OS X is fine with me). The
> only thing is that I'll need to go into extended partitioning as this
> is what my scheme looks like now:
>  
> ==100GB Hard drive==
> /dev/hda1 == WinXP == 20GB
> /dev/hda2 == boot // reiserfs == 2GB
> /dev/hda3 == swap == 4GB
> /dev/hda4 == reiserfs // gentoo linux == 72GB
> (Im at work so its all from memory, its very close though.)
>  
> I _dont_ want to get rid of Gentoo because of Portage *Drools*, nor do
> I want to scrap Windows (Flash MX + Maple Story).
> Another hard drive for this laptop is out of my price range, so Id
> like to just put Ubuntu on as well. I dont mind reducing the size of
> my boot partition if it really is that huge, nor do I mind reducing my
> gentoo partition.
>  
> Can someone tell me how to get Ubuntu (6.06) on to this hard drive?
> The only other option is to install onto my external 80GB drive, but
> when I tried it didn't work properly even after following a guide.
> Thanks!!
> ~Ian 
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