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Installer Format

Asked by Jacob

Ok lets start form the start. I have a Western Digital HDD Premioum and want to install Ubuntu. I want 100000MB (100 GB0 for ubuntu and 220GB for Mac OS X.
In the installer at step 5 i think (the partitioner) i hit the manual button and next in the manual screen i hit my hdd and hit Edit Partition and put in 100GB or should i put in 220GB in for Mac OS X well anyway, what file format do i use for OS ?

p.s. can you tell me what 220GB is in MB?

Thanks
            Jacob

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#1

220GB is 220000MB.

One GB equals to a thousand MB.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#2

I do not know if you have already installed OS/X on the hard disk.
You would need to partition the hard disk according to the requirements you describe above. You do not need to specify the filesystem for the other operating system as it will be formatted again when you install the other OS.

For Ubuntu Linux, you typically need
a. The Linux partition, 100GB ("/")
b. The Linux Swap partition, typically twice your RAM (if you have 1GB RAM, put 2GB for the swap partition). The swap partition also serves when you do hibernation.

It is suggested (I suggest) to create a separate partition (part of the 100MB) that you will use for the /home folder. That is, you put there your user files. When you install Ubuntu, full installation, it would take up about 4GB. Thus, give about 20GB for the Ubuntu system partition ("/"), 2GB for Linux swap, and the rest for the "/home" partition. Having separate "/home" partition helps a lot when you reinstall, as you keep all your data.

In any case, see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

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Jacob (jacob1351) said : 		#3

I mean i will install linix and use the rest for OS X storage. so i don't know what format my internal disk will read. here is a list of formats.

ect3
ect2
fat16
fat32
reiserfs
jfs
xfs
swamp
newworld
dontuse

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Jacob (jacob1351) said : 		#4

Is anyone there?

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#5

I do not know what filesystem OS/X uses. You may want to ask in an OS/X forum.

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Jacob (jacob1351) said : 		#6

do you know anything about GParted?

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#7

I know you can get the documentation at
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/documentation.php

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Jacob (jacob1351) said : 		#8

When i partition the drive for what i want and run the installer and it tells me that there are no new world partitions. and that it needs to be 812007 in size for a yaboot boot loader. how do i make a yaboot config file or what ever it is called and by pass the massage?

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Best Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#9

Personally I cannot help you on this; you may have better luck at ubuntuforums.org.

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Jacob (jacob1351) said : 		#10

I went to the Ubuntu Forums and i installed ubuntu but i need a bit of help with my yaboot, so if you all could, go to this website,

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=541816&page=16, that was the last page here is the front page,

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=541816.

Thanks!

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Jacob (jacob1351) said : 		#11

Thanks Simos Xenitellis, that solved my question.