Installing Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

marvin mckinley wrote:

> When doing a manual partition of Linux you have to have at least three
> designated partions :root ,swap and home.

No you don't.  You need a root and a swap (and even swap is not vital, it
will squawk at you if you try it, but still let you finish the install
without it).

> Root has to have at least 54 meg,

That looks way too small.  It needs just about that in /boot, to be able to
hold the current boot image and one to replace it at the next upgrade. 
Then you need room for, at least, /etc, /bin and /sbin, plus whatever space
is required for /usr, /var and /home if you don't put them on their own
partitions.  My root partition is currently using 266MB, so I can't see it
being much less than half that for a minimum _if_ you have /usr and /var on
separate partitions.  If you don't, /var can easily require many GB (var is
extremely flexible since it holds all the log files, caches, and mail
spool, so policy can make a huge difference to the size it will need),
and /usr should probably be at a bare minimum 3-5GB.
-- 
derek