Looking for a guide explaining how to manually partition and install Kubuntu

[jacatone]

Added a large HDD (25gigs) and don't want to use the entire drive to install Kubuntu. I've been through the install process several times but it keeps saying I need a root directory. Is there a tutorial out there that'll explain how this is done?
I'm also confused about the "Primary" and "Logical" drives.

If I used the entire drive to install Kubuntu would I be able to then use GParted to reduce the hda1 partition, or is that a bad idea?

[myNigga]

Re: Looking for a guide explaining how to manually partition and install Kubuntu

For a basic partitioning, you need at least 2 partitions:
- A linux-swap partition (depends on how much RAM you have... the more RAM, the less swap)
- A root "/" partition, on which the data will be installed.

I have 1GB of RAM and 125MB for swap, never had it activated, that is, the OS never needed it (but it's mandatory to have it). The bigger partition (the ext3) needs a root mount point, when the partitioner complains about it, put a slash (/) in the field "mount point".
That's all.

[Rog131]

Re: Looking for a guide explaining how to manually partition and install Kubuntu

Or use 3 partitions:

Create a separate home partition in Ubuntu
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

Partitioning Windows and Ubuntu
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

One of the most frequently asked questions about installing Ubuntu is "How should I partition my drive?"

Linux Partition HOWTO
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/

[Qqmike]

Re: Looking for a guide explaining how to manually partition and install Kubuntu

Have you also checked the How-To’s here under Documentation?
Like:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?board=53.0

GParted -- how-to: http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
This also looks promising but haven’t had time yet to read it.

[Qqmike]

Re: Looking for a guide explaining how to manually partition and install Kubuntu

You can have only four primary partitions on a hard drive (HD).
So, to get around this, or accommodate it,
people create 3 primary partitions on the HD,
then they create a so-called Extended partition (which qualifies as a primary partition, thus making four).
Now, after you create partition 4, the Extended partition, you may create within it other partitions and these are called Logical partitions (I guess to indicate they are contained within the Extended and not part of the group of the first three primary partitions).

That’s about all I know on that subject, which you mentioned elsewhere here.

[Qqmike]

Re: Looking for a guide explaining how to manually partition and install Kubuntu

So, to clarify a bit more . . .
And please wait for other opinions . . .

Your Kubuntu will take up 3 primary partitions, root /, /swap, and /home.
So, if you need another primary partition for something (eg, data or another distro or whatever),
You would first create the Extended partition as primary partition #4.
Then within that, you would create another new partition, partition #5, called a Logical partition. That would be the partition you would use (#5) for whatever it is you need it for.