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    Help Getting Started

    I've been reading about Kubuntu for about 2 months. I'm trying to figure out the best set-up for me before I begin. My Cpu is:
    E6600 overclocked to 3.4GHz.
    680i SLI LT motherboard
    2 8600GT video cards
    2 GB Ram
    1 Sata 500GB HD/ 2 Sata 320GB HD/ 1 250GB HD-which has pictures and music on it.

    Any suggestions on how to set-up the hard drives. The 250GB will eventually come and go into another CPU. I know that I need a root and swap partition but how do I set it up to use all of the space?
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    Re: Help Getting Started

    Basically since swap is generally never much bigger than how much ram you have you will want a swap partition of about 2gb. So just choose one of your hard drives and make 2gb of it you swap and the rest root.
    (Something very useful but a bit extra is a seperate /home partition which makes future reinstalls dead easy. If you wanted to do this you would instead create a 2gb swap partition, probably 15gb root partition and the rest a /home partition. Read up around the net more if you are interested in this. Its not necessary but it is nice)
    Other than that I'm guessing you plan on keeping windows on one of the harddrives and dual boot?
    So you would then have one harddrive windows, one kubuntu and then you can format the third one as fat32, that way you can access it from both windows and ubuntu (although with the release of gutsy gibbon 7.10 k/ubuntu now supports read/write on ntfs, windows default filesystem).
    As for the pics and music hd you can just leave that as is seeing you plan on moving it later.
    Just remember to back up any files first before you repartition things or you will lose them.
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      Re: Help Getting Started

      Psychocats web site is a good place to begin. You will find a lot of useful information here.
      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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        Re: Help Getting Started

        Thanks for the help guys
        Your suggestions really help me get going. I have 20gb as / and 3gb as swap. Then the rest I made one big logical group of 1.1tb as /home. I'm going to use my other cpu for windows (oh well) that is where the 250gb hd is going. Now all I have to do is fix the overscan on my mitsu 55 hdtv. Back to researching for me Thanks again!
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          Re: Help Getting Started

          Originally posted by e4kuber

          I have 20gb as / and 3gb as swap.
          That's a nice rig -- I'm jealous of those 8600GT cards!

          But, if you watch the utilization of swap (use ksysguard), I'll bet you an Nvidia card that you'll never see it use more than 250MB, no matter what you do. After I realized that swap is not used when you've got lots of RAM, the next time I installed Kubuntu I set swap at 0.5GB, and it rarely uses any of that, either.

          8)
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            Re: Help Getting Started

            Well I can still start over since I haven't configured anything yet! So, What's your trade offer for a 8600GT (Just Kidding!) Just finding it hard to stop this overscan.
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              Re: Help Getting Started

              Also, if you're thinking of giving the partitioning another shot, I'm using 6GB for Kubuntu "/", and it is exactly 56% full, with all my software including VMWare Player installed. So you could move about 14GB of that "/" partition over to /home, along with the extra from swap.

              Cards - oh, I dunno -- this 8800 GTX looks like it might run compiz:

              http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143085

              Anybody got a spare $850 ??

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                Re: Help Getting Started

                I'm sure that card would work. My money tree isn't growing very well out back!
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