want both: linux Ubuntu 12.10 and 1.5 TB

[gcopper]

I have a laptop withour windows, hd 1.5 TB 64 bit

Want to install Ubuntu 12.10 and the rest of 1.5 TB for different downloads.

What are the steps to be successful?

Best Regards
gcopper


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[Jeremiah Bess]

Haven't trued Ubuntu in a while, but most installations are pretty straight forward. Here's my suggestions based on my experience. Note, you may get as many different suggestions as you do replies. Do a manual format when the option is presented to you. Allocate around 50GB to root (/), 1/4-1/2 of your RAM size as swap (/swap), and 50GB as home (/home). Leave the rest as your storage. Format it during the install, or after, it doesn't matter.

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of five.

 

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[Ben Chavez]

What you need to do is boot your laptop from the Ubuntu CD or
Flashdrive, Once you are in the ubuntu live session press the windows
key and a search windows will appear, type there Gparted and run it.

With Gparted you will move the Windows partition to the left and reduce
its volume to maybe 200GB, then on the unalocated space create a primary
partition of 15GB just after the windows partition, Next create a
extended or logical partition of 100GB and finally create a partition of
4 GB for swap. format the remaning unalocate space in NTFS if you want
that way it can be use for windows and Ubuntu for sharing data

Write down the name and size of each partition, they will be like sda1,
sda2, sda3. You need to remember each partition for installation. Apply
the changes and once is done reboot into windows. Windows might complain
that something is not right and your system and it will check for error.
It might freak out to find out the drive in which it is running it got
reduced but it should boot still so give it a minute. Once you know
windows is working and there is no problem you can proceed with the
installation.

Boot the Ubuntu install cd or Flashdrive and get in the live session,
connect to the wi-fi and click the install Ubuntu icon, it will ask you
if you want the installer to get all the updates during installation you
should say yes to that. It will also ask you if you want the installer
to install extra software during installation. you should say yes to
that too.

then it will ask you some other questions set up date and time and stuff
you should make sure you are well aware of what you are answering there
will all these questions.

now when it says where do you want to install Ubuntu it will give you
the option of format the entire drive, install it side by side with
windows, or something else.

You need to select something else then choose the small partition of 15
GB, give it the mount point of / and select to be formated in Btrfs .
Next select the partition of 100GB give it the mount point of /home and
select to be formated in ext4. Then select the partition of 4 GB and
select to be formated as swap

Once you have that continue with the installation, is very importand
that you also remember the user name you created and the password you
created.

Good luck to you

[Matthew Dey]

On 01/05/2013 07:41 PM, gcopper wrote:
> I have a laptop withour windows, hd 1.5 TB 64 bit
>
> Want to install Ubuntu 12.10 and the rest of 1.5 TB for different
> downloads.
>
> What are the steps to be successful?
>
> Best Regards
> gcopper
>
>

During the installation phase you'll come to a part that asks you if you
want to use the entire drive/along side something/something else.

Choose something else. The other words that might be seen are stuff
like custom settings or expert which are equivalent.

The purpose is to partition (thats the key vocabulary word) the hard
drive. To install an operating system like linux generally you'll want
to allocate 40GB for your / partition and mount your / partition (also
known as root partition) on that 40GB allocation. This / partition
contains all your installed apps and system software so 40GB should be
far more than enough for most folks. I don't recommend less than 15GB
unless you know what you're doing (some apps like games can get big).
Then to make things easy to install other linux os's along side you'll
want to make another partition for your personal data called the /home
partition and mount it accordingly. The /home partition should be large
to accommodate all your personal data like photos, videos, documents,
music, and etc. I recommend with a huge drive like that to allocate at
the very least 500GB to /home. Finally you'll want to create a smallish
/swap partition that is slightly larger than the size of your total
ram(a side note: swap is used for hibernation where the contents of ram
are dumped to the hard drive so the computer can recover from your last
place if you choose to hibernate your computer rather than shut it
down). The remainder of space on your drive should be left unallocated.

Here are the main points again.

/ = 40GB for applications+software
/home >= 500GB for personal data
/swap >= the size of your ram

and the rest to be left unallocated so that they can be used for later use.

I would highly recommend looking into articles online describing
multiboot as there is quite a lot to learn that can be very helpful.
Read into GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) so you can learn about how to
do stuff like chain loading and adding custom entries. Chainloading will
be a good friend to you as you can use your MBR (Master Boot Record) to
load other installs from their grubs installed to their partitions
superblock which means you won't need to update your Ubuntu's grub every
single time you get a kernel update in one of your installs. I would
learn about ubuntu a bit before going distro hopping as learning the
common tools and utilities can help make things easier when you try less
user friendly distributions.

I hope this helps with a very broad topic with lots to learn.

Regards,

-Matt

[Roy]

You can use any partition editor that you may be familiar with to do
this. The one in the Ubuntu installer works well if you understand a
few basics. However while you are doing a custom installation then I
would suggest making a few changes.

I would put Ubuntu on two partitions, one for root and one for home
plus your swap plus your downloads partition. That makes four
partitions in all.

If you are downloading multimedia and ripping then you will need a
larger root. Typically users choose 8 GBs. I have several desktop
environments and a lot of applications installed and it comes to about
10 GBs of used space. However you want to leave space for temp files.
They can be quite large. 20 GBs should be loads for heavy users and 8
for lighter users. Home can be any size you choose. Depending on how
you use it you can get away with a relatively small one. Mine is 200
GBs because I have lots of photographs and store things centrally. I
back them up to an external drive. If you want a small one then you
may have to move things to the Downloads partition or store them
offline at a regular interval.

If you choose to small a home or root partition then you may find
things become unstable or even make your system freeze and not boot.
That is not fun to sort out. Err on the side of caution and choose
bigger over smaller.

Swap should be no larger than twice your RAM or it will actually slow
you down. I use the same as my RAM since I have lots to begin with.

Why use a separate home and root partition? It makes re-installing a
breeze. You keep your home and all its fiels and settings when you
re-install and will not use them provided you NEVER choose to format
it and keep the same partition and user name. That means a custom
installation every time, but it is a piece of cake once you get a
handle on it.

Roy


Using Kubuntu 12.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

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[Collins Oluoch]

I dont think you need a larger / or /home partition even if you have  downloads etc. I personally use symbolic links. i.e I have a symbolic link from my Downloads folder in home directory to different folder  /media/Media partition which is 1 TB in size.

 As adviced, you can allocate root 40 GB to root and maybe 50 GB to home if needed. The rest space can be left for the extra partition for holding none OS related Data.

Hope my response is not  late.

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