Installation and partitioning

[crazylinux]

Hello Teachers,

I am a novice. I have a PC with Windows XP having 2 partitions. Chaving free space) has windows and D: is recovery partition. Both are in NTFS. I want to install linux in my PC. I think I should create one more partion E:
by minimising C: using partition magic 8.

1. How can I partition the drive using partition magic 8?

2.Should the new partition be in FAT 32 format?

3.After partitioning what should i do? I have the ubuntu live cd only.


Please explain in detail step by step.
I will be highly grateful to you.

Regards

[Kieren]

Ubuntu comes as a Live CD but this CD is also used as the installer. It's designed to let you try it out and then if you like it then you can quickly install it

During the installation you are given the option to partition. I have always used this over Partition Magic. Also you should be aware that naming disks as C:/ and such is a Windows thing so you won’t see it in Linux. Instead drives will be named things like /dev/sda1

Anyway, I think at about page 5 of the installation you will come to a screen called “Prepare disk space”. There will be a bar at the top of this page that should display how your disk is currently formatted. Windows uses NTFS as it’s file system and your C:/ drive will take up the majority with D:/ taking a much smaller amount.

What you want to do is shrink C:/ and place a new partition in the new space with the file system type ext3. To do this select “Specify partitions manually”. On the resulting screen select your C:/ drive and click “Edit” now resize it to create all the room you require for Ubuntu. If you have less than 2GB of RAM you will probably want to create some swap space too.

You will now have an extra partition. Click this space and choose “New partition”. If you want to use swap space then do this first. Normally you will want to have twice as much swap as you have RAM, so if you have 512MB or RAM create 1GB of swap. People are beginning to stop using swap though so if you have 2GB or more then I would recommend not using any swap

Finally create a new partition using ext3 as the file system and make the mount point / (root). This will be where Ubuntu will install to.

That’s it! I’ve tried to be clear and thorough but let me know if you need anything clearing up

[crazylinux]

Dear sir,

Thank you very much for your time and highly valued suggestion. I tried both the methods:

1. Used the partitioner in ubuntu CD itself.

2. Used partition magic to create partition and then installed ubuntu.


But in both the cases I made the two partitions for linux:

1.ext3 partition for O.S i.e. linux and made it primary.

2.swap partition for linux and also made it primary.

My question is that should both the partion be primary or anyone can be logical?


One more question ::: I have a laptop with vista home premium. I cannot use partition magic to make partition.
Now if I want to insatll linux along with vista how to do that. Can i use vistas own partitioner?

What is the difference between Vista Home Basi, Vista HOme premium and Vista professional? Will arrange in increasing order of efficiency (better)

Regards

[bigvoo]

HI, vista has it's own partition editor built in, just go ::-control panel--disk management--shrink partition....if you need more, there is a really good video on youtube about it...if it's still there. good luck