Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Ready to install Linux

You should try the full Ubuntu download instead of the Netbook Edition.
Check it out before installing as Toshibas can be hard to work with, or so I
have heard, but truthfully many laptops are because they have more
proprietary hardware. The Live CD should allow you to put it through the
paces and then if the graphics and sound work fine, then proceed with
installing.

Ubuntu will run fine from an external driver or even a usb stick. Just be
sure to write grub bootloader to the external drive and not mbr of the
laptop drive. Then when you boot you will have to have the BIOS set to boot
to usb first. When the drive is attached it should boot into grub and then
you can choose Ubuntu from the list. When it is not attached it will not
show grub and you will boot normally.

My personal preference is to use two partitions for Ubuntu. You will need a
smaller one for root where all of the applications go, 10 - 30 GBs depending
on your habits. If you do lots of multimedia burning and plan on installing
much then tend toward the larger end of that range. When you rip DVDs,
download videos or watch flash videos the tmp folder of root is used. You
will want more space for your /home folder. It is also a good idea, but not
essential to set up a small swap partition, not larger than twice your RAM.
You can use the remainder of the drive as a separate data partition
formatted to NTFS so that you can access it from both Linux and Windows.
That means four partitions (/, /home, swap and NTFS).

Linux uses mount points instead of drive letters. The mount point for root
is / and home is /home. Swap is just swap. The file system will give you a
choice of formats. The current default is ext4, but you could use the older
ext3 or even ext2. You can also choose to encrypt your drives or not.

Good luck!

Roy

On 24 June 2010 15:43, Gabrielle <dawnyisrael13@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Greetings to the Group,
>
> Well, I finally have my own computer and am ready to install Linux. I now
> that a Toshiba Laptop with a dual core processor, 3Gb/320 gb hard Drive. I
> also obtained an external Seagate 500Gb HD. That is where I would like to
> put the Linux is onto this external HD. I want to set it up and do it
> correct. I went to the Ubuntu Netbook download page. I am not sure if it
> will ask me if I am going to partition my hard drive or use an external HD.
> Should I use the Netbook download or should I do something else and how to
> proceed. Thank you
>
>
>

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