bradw
August 10th, 2008, 02:37 AM
Greetings all.
Finally ready to make the switch to linux and I have chosen unbuntu. Have a ? about partioning my drive. It is 160gig. I would like a root, home, swap and var partion. laptop is hp dv9074cl with two gig of ram. Thinking of upping the ram to four gig before install.
?1. I have read swap should be 2x ram so do I need to make swap either 4 or 8 gig?
?2. how large should the var partion be. I dont have a clue on this one.
?3. should more room go to root or home. I and my 2 daughters (5 & 7) will be using the laptop
Any suggestions would be most welcome. What I looking for is how you would carve up the drive and
more important since Im trying to learn here is why would you carve it up the way you suggest. I will have no dual boot system
One last question, anyone running 8.04 on the hp laptop mentioned above. I was just wondering if there are any problems with the factory supplied hardware. Oh yea before I forget any recommendations on either a hp or epson wireless printer that works out of the box. I have a lexmark z1420 and many sites say this is a paperweight for linux. Darn nice little printer for xp and at 50 dollars at sams club not a bad deal but from what I read a dead horse for linux
thanks for any and all suggestions
brad
Finally ready to make the switch to linux and I have chosen unbuntu. Have a ? about partioning my drive. It is 160gig. I would like a root, home, swap and var partion. laptop is hp dv9074cl with two gig of ram. Thinking of upping the ram to four gig before install.
?1. I have read swap should be 2x ram so do I need to make swap either 4 or 8 gig?
?2. how large should the var partion be. I dont have a clue on this one.
?3. should more room go to root or home. I and my 2 daughters (5 & 7) will be using the laptop
Any suggestions would be most welcome. What I looking for is how you would carve up the drive and
more important since Im trying to learn here is why would you carve it up the way you suggest. I will have no dual boot system
One last question, anyone running 8.04 on the hp laptop mentioned above. I was just wondering if there are any problems with the factory supplied hardware. Oh yea before I forget any recommendations on either a hp or epson wireless printer that works out of the box. I have a lexmark z1420 and many sites say this is a paperweight for linux. Darn nice little printer for xp and at 50 dollars at sams club not a bad deal but from what I read a dead horse for linux
thanks for any and all suggestions
brad