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the badger
April 27th, 2008, 07:33 PM
hi all - i'm "this close" to install the heron but i'm a little uncertain about the options given in manual partitioning mode. clarity is much appreciated -- or if someone found a similar post, pls redirect me!

i want to set up a /boot partition. i have a separate /boot now after grub error 18 occurred on installation of 7.10... do i use "EFI boot partition" as the use-as? (what is "EFI"?)
i'm setting up "/"10gb -- "/boot"100mb -- "/swap"1gb -- "/home" gets the rest ...am i missing something?
primary and logical... oh, my. i should remember this stuff, but i'm not sure. what gets what?
things used to be hdb0...hdb3 (or whatever). this time around i'm seeing sda or similar(?) what gives? am i looking at the wrong thing?

thanks are many.

the badger
April 29th, 2008, 04:03 PM
bumpity bump.

hi :)

the8thstar
April 29th, 2008, 04:35 PM
i want to set up a /boot partition. i have a separate /boot now after grub error 18 occurred on installation of 7.10... do i use "EFI boot partition" as the use-as? (what is "EFI"?)

If you are doing a clean install, you can remove your /boot partition. It is useless. The /boot FOLDER which is going to be created in your / (root) partition will contain all the needed info to properly boot the system.



i'm setting up "/"10gb -- "/boot"100mb -- "/swap"1gb -- "/home" gets the rest ...am i missing something?

Follow my signature for an idea of how to customize your disk. If you want to save yourself a partition, don't use /swap but instead create a swapfile instead in / for instance. It works just as well.

Her is the link for the how-to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#head-75ffcb00cefe143fc380f84d7ea9203f16a596d0

Finally, I would definitely advise you to create a /Home partition. If you need to reinstall or upgrade the system located on /, your files and settings will remain safe on /Home.


primary and logical... oh, my. i should remember this stuff, but i'm not sure. what gets what?

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning



things used to be hdb0...hdb3 (or whatever). this time around i'm seeing sda or similar(?) what gives? am i looking at the wrong thing?

Either you're using a different type of hard disk (ie. SATA, eSATA or IDE), or Gparted (the GUI disk partitioner) identifies it differently than it used to. IMO, no worries there. :)