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Installing Ubuntu

Im posting this from the Ubuntu Live CD.
Going to install now, I'll keep you posted.
And share any questions I might (read: will) have.

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Good luck. I think you'll find that the Ubuntu experience is quite decent and that the installation isn't too hard at all. Though as you said, if you have any questions be sure to post them here. I'm sure someone will answer them within a decent amount of time.

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Um... problemo ;p

Still on Live CD here, when I come to partition my HD to install Ubuntu I get something weird...

I'm on an IBM ThinkPad Laptop with a 60GB hdd.
As far as I knew of, I only had 1 big partition on it with a total size of 52.8 GB
I thought maybe this was because of how the laptop has a function where I can ''reset factory settings'' so it kept an image of the hdd as it was at factory on there.
But now, the Ubuntu Install thing tells me I have 1 52.8GB partition and 3.06 GB of ''unallocated space'' is it safe to use this unallocated space for my Ubuntu partition or do I risk removing some of the stuff on the Hdd that IBM put there?

Note that 52.8 + 3.06 = 55.86gb, not 60gb...

Opinions before I continue?

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Also, will 6gb give enough space to play around with different programs and stuff or should I give it more?
If more, how much more? 10gb? Can't go much higher than that...

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Ok, I read around a bit and there IS a hidden "rescue and restore" partition on there.
I'm not sure if it's the 3.06 gb or not though...

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Have u tried asking at the offical forums for ubuntu. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

Nope, it's resizing now...
Is it going to kill my windows?

Waiting, fingers crossed...

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What's a frickin' mount point now?
Can't find a decent definition anywhere it seems...

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It shouldn't kill your windows. Providing you partition correctly.

Originally posted by MrCastle:

Note that 52.8 + 3.06 = 55.86gb, not 60gb...

The "quoted" disk space (i.e. when you say 'I've got an 80GB HDD') never matches what you get in reality. You usually get 2 to 5 GB less usable disk space (varies depending on the size of the HDD). Manufactuers often round up the "quoted" available space to the nearest 10GB.

I remember when I installed Fedora 4 on a spare machine a while back. It set it's Grub bootloader as default where it let me select Windows or Fedora when I switched on the machine.

Ringpull, I believe it's due to the hard drive manufacturers marking 1,000,000,000 bytes as a gigabyte instead of 2^30 bytes. They don't "round up" so much as they just don't put in the amount they said they did. The computer then reads the number of bytes, divides it by 2^30, and outputs the quotient as the disk size.

Edit: forgot some zeros.

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Last edited by drix, November 12th, 2006 09:44 PM (Edited 1 times)