help with partitions on dual boot

psd99 · 18 Feb 2011 at 19:35

I'm going to get ubuntu installed on my laptop that already has xp

I've created a new partition which is about 11GB. I wish to install ubuntu on this.

I'm thinking

/
and
/home

but anyway I'm not sure what I should do. I might install some programs and use it sometimes so what partitions and how much should I assign?

psd99 · 18 Feb 2011 at 19:36

btw this is dual boot damn I'm on the live cd now
firefox just looks so much sexier!

psd99 · 19 Feb 2011 at 11:20

okay thanks for that

ive now got 22 gb for linux

okay say i wanted to do it manually because the installer doesn't do what i want automatically

say i wanted to manually partition the 22gb what partitions should i make and how big?

i would have though i'd need
/
/boot
/home

but what sizes and which ones should i make logical or primary?

thanks

psd99 · 19 Feb 2011 at 11:22

btw this is backtrack I'm putting on there not ubuntu although it looks like ubuntu when you get to grub!

psd99 · 20 Feb 2011 at 16:21

thanks I'll give that a bash

normally I let the installer make the change automatically but this time that isn't feasible.

yer should be okay to get into windows
will edit the /etc/menu.lst file or whatever it is

psd99 · 20 Feb 2011 at 20:11

masterluke said:
Personally i've always just created 2 partitions one for swap and one set to "/"

I'm sure there are very good reasons to separate out /boot and /home but I don't know what they are. Maybe someone can enlighten me?

afaik I know /boot would be for the boot loader i/e grub /boot/grub/grub.conf
which should give you list of os's

as for /home mmmm not sure
would have thought it would be for user files or a user directory.