Regaining a partition for reinstall. . . .

[JohneG]

I have an old computer that i have Ubuntu 8.04 installed on. I would like to install 9.04 on it. The hard drive is partitioned. I also have Mandriva on another partition. So how would i go about installing Ubuntu 9.04 onto the hard drive and for it to take over the whole drive?? I don't know much about manual partitioning (i used the partitioner in the install) so if someone could tell me in easy to understand steps that would be great. Thanks,

John

[bacil]

It is really up to you

rule of thumb is swap to be twice of actual RAM size and some ppl recomand that /home is on separate partition.

back in old days i used to have partition for /usr, /opt and /var aswel but reasons for this are obsoleted so my suggestion is to go with whole disk. unless you want to keep your mandriva and old ubuntu.

[JohneG]

I just want to do a default install of 9.04 but i want it to use the whole drive. How do i do this?

[bacil]

there is radio button for use whole disk , when you installing (in disk partition section)

[dk06]

It is really up to you

rule of thumb is swap to be twice of actual RAM size and some ppl recomand that /home is on separate partition.

back in old days i used to have partition for /usr, /opt and /var aswel but reasons for this are obsoleted so my suggestion is to go with whole disk. unless you want to keep your mandriva and old ubuntu.

For swap its 1 1/2 Times the amount of installed RAM
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If you want Ubuntu to take over the whole drive, choose the:
"Guided, Use Entire Disk Option" during the GUI Install (from Live CD)

[JohneG]

Thanks for that. I cant actually believe i forgot that. I have been preoccupied with trying to get get windows XP to take over a whole drive on a machine i gave to my parents (i had it partitioned with Ubuntu as well but seeing as they don't need it or use it i wanted to regain the partition). I just completely forgot that it was so easy when installing Ubuntu. Anyone know how i could regain the Ubuntu partition on the machine i gave my parents?