Novice query: Installation Help

[Colin Law]

On 2 October 2013 10:22, AP <worldwithoutfences at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One note. some have experienced wifi network problems unless you use the
>> live session to install from. Then it is reported to be completely
>> successful. Ric
>
> Okay, but I am thinking why the installation either from live session or
> otherwise could how pay the different ways? Since in either case it is
> occupying the entire hard-disk space. Might be some internal story, but I am
> unable to understand that!

I also don't understand how it can make a difference to the installed
system and am skeptical about whether this is really an issue.  I
recommend always connecting by wire during the install if possible.
The last thing you want is the wifi dropping out in the middle of the
install.

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> True true, but he self admits to being a novice.
>
>
> Yes, I am novice.
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is LVM available on the 12.04 installer?
>
> Frankly speaking, I don't know but I heard someone saying to use LVM but I
> have to use for the home (desktop), I am canceling this plan.
>
> I am going with the defaults only. The plan I was going with (/ = 16 GB,
> /home = 212 GB and /swap = 2 GB), is not the default...? May be because we
> are our self allocating the space for each partition and I guess the default
> also takes the same way of partitioning the disk space.

The default is to use one partition for /home and /.  Unless you want
to be able dual boot multiple systems and use the same /home  for them
all then there is I believe little if any advantage in a separate
/home partition.  Particularly as it is now possible to install a new
version of ubuntu over an old one but tell it to keep /home even when
it is not in a separate partition.  However if you want a separate
/home then the figures you suggest above would be fine.  The
disadvantage is that you are throwing away around 8GB of disk as /
will probably not rise much above 8 of the 16.  If you make / much
less that 16 however then at some point you may find it gets a bit
tight.

Others strongly feel that separate /home and / are desirable and that
is fine.  I stopped doing this a couple of years ago however and have
not regretted it.

Colin