Installing Ubuntu

[marvin mckinley]

When doing a manual partition of Linux you have to have at least three designated partions :root ,swap and home.Root has to have at least 54 meg,swap should have at least twice what you have  in ram,for instance 512 meg of ram should have 1024 in the swap drive and home should have in my experience at least a gig ,more if you have  it available,these should be the minimum for a linux partiton.

"Andrew P. Burgess" <apb at live.ca> wrote:     I've been trying to install Ubuntu on a  few different computers in a few different ways recently; I've never worked with  Linux before and want to give it a try. My latest attempt was to install it on a  partition, to dual boot with Vista. I tried to follow this article: http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first;  but when I got to partitioning in the installation, there was no option to use  the empty space on the hard drive; also, that portion of my hard drive was  labeled "unusable." So I chose manual partitioning and selected another  partition to install Ubuntu on. But when I tried to continue the installation  after choosing the partition, I received message telling me to choose something  for the root (I should have written it down ). I hope this all makes sense; if not, I'll  try again!
  
 Should I format the partition I'm trying  to install Ubuntu on while in Windows before trying to install it? If so, is  ntfs what I need to format it in? Or am I doing something wrong in the  Ubuntu side? I'd really appreciate any help! I'm using a Dell Inspiron  1520 laptop. 
  
 Thanks, 
 Andrew 
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