[Fife Linux Users Group] Ubuntu Install

[Barrie Dempster]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:17 +0100, Jim McLaren wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 12:10, John A Thomson of Roundtrip Solutions 
> Limited wrote:
> > Do you know of a decent idiots, I mean newbie guide, to do the partition
> > step during the Ubuntu install? Just want to ensure I'm doing things
> > correct from day 1. What other partitions are required and how should I
> > split up my 80 gig?
> 
> Ask 10 experts and you'll get 20 different answers. It really boils down to 
> what you are going to use the machine for. If you want to have a look at some 
> specialised setups then www.howtoforge.com is a good place to start.

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_5.10_p2

That's quite similar to my setup, although my / is 10 gig, my swap is
500meg and instead of a /var I have /home take up the rest of the disk.

-- 
With Regards..
Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue

              - http://reboot-robot.net -

"He who hingeth aboot, geteth hee-haw" Victor - Still Game
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