Novice query: Installation Help

[chris]

On 02/10/13 07:31, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, PM <worldwithoutfences at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have downloaded the Ubuntu LTS 12.04.3 and want to install in the whole of
>> the space of my PC. Please let me know about how much partition should I
>> allocate for each partition or should I go with the default one, means
>> letting Ubuntu itself decide what to do (since I have to use whole of the
>> disk). The details are as follows:
>>
>> RAM size: 2 GB
>> Hard-disk size: 230 GB actually but they say it is 250 GB
>>
>> Further, if I should go with LVM or not? If it is really useful, I would use
>> it but if I have to go with it, how to use it during the installation?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
> If you're gonna use the entire disk, then I don't see the harm in
> using the defaults.  You have copied your data, haven't you?
I use the following scheme tht works well

/12gig
/home as large as possible
/temp = ram
/swap = to ram
/var 15gig.

Works well