jimmyray
October 15th, 2008, 08:09 PM
I searched this site but found no very recent posts answering these questions.
Just called newegg and the new laptop is on the way with a 320G drive and pre-installed Vista. Will likely keep Vista despite the fact I haven't spent much time in ******* for about 10 years. Have no idea how much space Vista will need.
Have partitioned disks since Slackware 3.something. This will be my first Ubuntu install (actually Kubuntu since I like KDE.)
Questions:
1. Plan for partitions? What would you guys suggest? Thought I'd just have a root (/), /home and /swap.
2. What are some suggestions on the sizes? Will have some entertainment files on this laptop (mp3's,video etc...).
3. Can Vista read a ext3 drive or should I keep common files like documents on a separate NTFS partition labeled common or something and just use it to write files from linux to this drive? In the past the performance of writing to a NTFS drive was an issue but then again I have been using very old and limited hardware.
I have been reading all the articles on dual booting Vista and Ubuntu and it doesn't seem that horrible to set up.
Thanks for the time.
jimmyray
Just called newegg and the new laptop is on the way with a 320G drive and pre-installed Vista. Will likely keep Vista despite the fact I haven't spent much time in ******* for about 10 years. Have no idea how much space Vista will need.
Have partitioned disks since Slackware 3.something. This will be my first Ubuntu install (actually Kubuntu since I like KDE.)
Questions:
1. Plan for partitions? What would you guys suggest? Thought I'd just have a root (/), /home and /swap.
2. What are some suggestions on the sizes? Will have some entertainment files on this laptop (mp3's,video etc...).
3. Can Vista read a ext3 drive or should I keep common files like documents on a separate NTFS partition labeled common or something and just use it to write files from linux to this drive? In the past the performance of writing to a NTFS drive was an issue but then again I have been using very old and limited hardware.
I have been reading all the articles on dual booting Vista and Ubuntu and it doesn't seem that horrible to set up.
Thanks for the time.
jimmyray