Ok so, yesterday I attempted installing xubuntu on an old comp. It booted up fine, but I was being guided with the help of a relative online the relative had to leave, and now Im left half way done. Im partitioning my 10GB maxtor HD manually and Am completely confused. He mention something about 700mb to swap and the rest for ext2 but its accesing for a mount point location begining or end and im just confused need help to get this thing running!
2007-08-11 18:05:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
No im not dual booting. In addition I have the options of choosing Begining and End Which one do I choose!
2007-08-11 18:18:06 · update #1
When it gets to the partitioner, create a 512 mb swap partition. You can do 700, but 512 is more than enough. you also create an ext 2 partition with the rest of your hard drive space, make sure you make it bootable. Just choose beginning for the mount point. and make sure you make both partitions primary. Below is a link to a video that should help you out. just go to the part where they install ubuntu. Installing ubuntu and xubuntu is very similar. And the people in the video show how to do the partitioning
2007-08-11 18:18:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you run the manual partitioner I normally delete all existing partitions first, then create new one. Simply high light the drive on the partitioner screen then select create partition, make it 500mb, type will be swap. Then create another partition, use all the remaining space, type will be ext3, mount point is /. Then simply click next and the install will begin. If xubuntu doesn't work well performance wise, try Vector Linux, I just installed in on a customers 233mmx system and it runs great!
2007-08-12 15:23:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets see...
You probably don't need 700 MB for swap. You actually only need about 512 MB for swap. The swap partition should usually be the first partition in the list. There should be a dropbox, if I recall, that says "Mount as". Select "swap" in this box. The second partition should be formatted as ext2 or ext3. Select "/" in the dropbox.
If you are not dual-booting this computer, you should probably just tell it to do an automatic installation. It will be much easier on you.
2007-08-11 18:12:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband says to set up the partition automatically. That would be your easiest route.
2007-08-11 18:11:33 · answer #4 · answered by MommyB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋