disk partitioning for Ubuntu 8.1

[NoOp]

On 01/21/2009 05:21 AM, Ray Leventhal wrote:

> 
> On to my question.  I've googled a bunch but haven't yet seen a 
> preferred disk layout for Ubuntu.  My situation is this:
> 
> M$WinDoze on first half of my drive, NTFS
> 
> I've an unallocated 80GB segment on which I'd like to install Ubuntu. 
>  From what I can see, I need to manually create the partitions using 
> gparted from the LiveCD portion of the 8.1 distribution media.  If I can 
> do this in an automated fashion, I'd love a pointer in the right direction.
> 
> If it does need to be done manually, given a 2GB memory system, I'd be 
> inclined to create a 4GB linux-swap partition, but am not sure (as I've 
> come from the RH camp) if there's a preferred / and /boot paradigm.

That's pretty much the safe formula.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
<quote>
How much swap do I need?

    * If you have n MB of RAM, you need between n and 2*n MB of swap.
    * If you have a disk big enough, just put 2*n MB swap.
</quote>

You might find these of interest as well - they are a little basic, but
sometimes 'basic' is helpful :-)

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/i386/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/i386/partitioning.html
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition