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correct 'mount point' for 8.10 clean install/dual boot?

Asked by Henry Peters

I (at last) did a clean install over my Ubuntu 8.04.1. I chose (rather blindly) in the partition manager, as a 'mount point' '/' (as in slash). What does this setup do for OS operation? What is the *correct* mount point... assuming there is one, & or does each option given (quite a few) have differing repercussions in terms of ones uses of the OS? Perhaps there is a wiki on this topic?

 I'm in Windows XP now, because I have to (try to) reset up my dial-up modem... Took me a long time with 8.04... hopefully, I learned then, how to do this again, i.e., there are no OS compatibility issues with my Robotics modem.

Appreciate any help.

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Best Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#1

I'm assuming you mean you used the manually partition option during the install (step 4 I believe). If you already had Ubuntu installed there were probably 2 partitions for Ubuntu and then one for XP. Ubuntu needs two partitions to run correctly: root and swap. The root partition is refered to as slash (/) and the swap is just called swap. If you set your main (i.e. biggest) non windows partition as slash then you are fine. You should have also selected the smaller one for swap.

There is indeed a wiki for Ubuntu and it's vast. Visit https://help.ubuntu.com. Click the community contributed documentation link for most of the help articles. Browse the home page for info on each release. There is also an install guide https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/i386/index.html. Chapter 6 goes over the installation steps.

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Henry Peters (hwpeters) said : 		#2

Thanks Jim,

I'm root all the way... yaaaaahooo.

On to modem-ville... ugh.

Henry

At 12:36 PM 12/29/2008, you wrote:
>Your question #55785 on synaptic in ubuntu changed:
>https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+question/55785
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
>Jim Hutchinson proposed the following answer:
>I'm assuming you mean you used the manually partition option during the
>install (step 4 I believe). If you already had Ubuntu installed there
>were probably 2 partitions for Ubuntu and then one for XP. Ubuntu needs
>two partitions to run correctly: root and swap. The root partition is
>refered to as slash (/) and the swap is just called swap. If you set
>your main (i.e. biggest) non windows partition as slash then you are
>fine. You should have also selected the smaller one for swap.

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Henry Peters (hwpeters) said : 		#3

Thanks Jim Hutchinson, that solved my question.