My Ubuntu Experience: Installation
November 11, 2006 – 19:40 | LAMP, UbuntuInstalling Ubuntu 6.1 (”Edgy Eft”) was smooth. I have 3 NTFS partitions on the harddrive. One of them was deleted to make room for Ubuntu. It’s about 24GB. Made 2 partitions – 2GB for swap, and the rest for /. I know it’d be better to have things like /var and /home in separate partitions, but there can only be up to 4 patitions on one harddrive, so that’s that.
As for the other two NTFS partitions, the installer discovered them and offered to mount them to the linux file system. The default root mount point for them was a little strange to be called “/media”. So I changed them to, well, /win/c, and /win/e. Later on I’m planning on converting E: to FAT32 or FAT32+ext3, so the duo can safely share files. For now, though, the first thing after booting into my new Ubuntu installation was changing /etc/fstab, and replacing the “defaults” in options for those two mount points to “ro”. That makes them read-only.
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One Response to “My Ubuntu Experience: Installation”
Congratulations…I’ve intalled Ubuntu 3 weeks ago on the PC of my father (60 years old and fed up with a not starting Windows any more)
I saved the data from his not working Windows on a Mac Mini, and replaced all partitions with Ubuntu 6.0.6 (6.10 was not out this time)
He’s very enjoyed with Ubuntu, being able to do 90% of his tasks. One problem is acquiring pictures from his HP camera..i tried Picasa (Linux) bit not works..so i will try GPhoto 2 i think..and next step willbe to upgrade to Efty Edge
I keep your blog in my favorites to follow your adventures. I only work on Mac and Linux for 5 years now.
Laurent
By Laurent Bois on Nov 12, 2006