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Got my new computer up and running and am about to stick ubuntu on it. I've got one 320Gb HD connected to it (at the moment) and intend to use this drive to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu.
Vista's got stuck in the treacle of the postal system so Ubuntu's going on first. The vista installation should be fairly small as windows games, personal files and media will be installed on a separate drives. The partition for Vista will contain the OS itself, utilities and office/graphics software. I'm coming from using XP which always looked cute and small upon installation but expanded to fill all available space thereafter! How big should the vista partition be?
I was going to give Vista 50-80Gb at the start of the drive and give ubuntu the rest of the disc which would be...
10-20Gb \
4 Gb \swap (have 4Gb RAM)
rest of free space for \home
on either 4 primary partitions or 2 primaries (vista and \ ) and swap and home on extended/logical ones)
do these sizes sound about right? I'd like to get it right first time as I've never quite trusted partition fiddling programs.
What I'm really confused about though is the mention of dedicated boot partitions in various guides but can't establish whether these are really necessary for someone wanting just a dual boot desktop for home use which will be Vista and only one linux distro at a time... Do I really need one and do I need to place it at the very start of the hard drive. From what I understand it's a only a dedicated home for the kernel (which would otherwise live happily in root), no longer needs to be placed at the start of the drive on a modern computer and is irrelevant to any Windows OS on the disc. Is this correct?
thanks,
B
Vista's got stuck in the treacle of the postal system so Ubuntu's going on first. The vista installation should be fairly small as windows games, personal files and media will be installed on a separate drives. The partition for Vista will contain the OS itself, utilities and office/graphics software. I'm coming from using XP which always looked cute and small upon installation but expanded to fill all available space thereafter! How big should the vista partition be?
I was going to give Vista 50-80Gb at the start of the drive and give ubuntu the rest of the disc which would be...
10-20Gb \
4 Gb \swap (have 4Gb RAM)
rest of free space for \home
on either 4 primary partitions or 2 primaries (vista and \ ) and swap and home on extended/logical ones)
do these sizes sound about right? I'd like to get it right first time as I've never quite trusted partition fiddling programs.
What I'm really confused about though is the mention of dedicated boot partitions in various guides but can't establish whether these are really necessary for someone wanting just a dual boot desktop for home use which will be Vista and only one linux distro at a time... Do I really need one and do I need to place it at the very start of the hard drive. From what I understand it's a only a dedicated home for the kernel (which would otherwise live happily in root), no longer needs to be placed at the start of the drive on a modern computer and is irrelevant to any Windows OS on the disc. Is this correct?
thanks,
B