Hi Xie, My way to do this work is: 1. Create the swap partition (4Gb) as logical one 2. Then create another Ext3 partition (taking the rest of free space) as logical one 3. When install the Linux, mount Swap partition as Swap and Ext3 partition as /
That's all you need to consider. You don't need to place swap partition or Ext3 partition at the end of your hard disk. Good luck, TriNgo On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Xie Jiabao <xie.jia...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > My sincere apologies at the outset for a non-ccp4 question. I am trying to > install ubuntu-8.04.1 (64-bit) linux on my windows xp containing core2 > laptop so as to create a dual boot system. At the moment windows xp is > installed on a 30GB partition and there is another 20 GB FAT32 partition > which was created to share data between windows and linux once the latter > was installed, and 110 GB of free space. I have a few questions which I > would like addressed before I install linux. > > a) I would like to create a linux swap partition of 4-6 GB and have the > rest as an ext3 linux partition. Should these new partitions be primary or > logical partitions? What is the difference between primary and logical > partitions? > > b) Should these new partitions be located at the end of my hard disk since > Windows likes to be next to the first sector (MBR)? > > c) Should the new partitions be mounted as /swap and /root or /home? > > Thanks in advance, > > Xie > >
