On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:51 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 27/07/10 13:21, Barry Titterton wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 17:55 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > > > >> When installing, it's dead easy. Choose custom disk partitioning, give > >> about 10-20GB to the root partition (called "/") and the rest to > >> /home, leaving about 2GB at the end for a swap partition. > >> > > > > Liam, > > > > I didn't find it dead easy when I tried to install Lucid with a separate > > Home directory on a spare desktop a few weeks back. When I got to the > > manual install screen I was expecting something like the GParted > > graphical interface but I found the screen that was I was presented with > > rather confusing. None of the sites that I had Googled before hand > > showed the actual install screen, nor explained what all of the options > > meant. I chickened out and opted for the default, all-in-one > > installation. Subsequent research suggests that I should have used the > > live CD to run GParted and partition the disc before the installation. > > > > Barry > > > > > > Try this guide, step 4 onwards covers separate /home partitions. > Although bear in mind it does assume the hard drive is either blank or > that you don't want to keep anything that is on the drive (for instance > an existing installation of Windows etc). > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Ubuntu-10-04-LTS-141550.shtml > > Rob >
Thanks Rob, just what I needed. I have bookmarked that page. Barry -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
