Installing Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> If you already had 4 primary partitions, then shrinking one doesn't
> actually help you - you actually need to _remove_ one, change it to an
> extended
> partition, and create logical partitions within it.  imo, it's easier to
> create one primary for Windows (if you must...), one for swap (not really
> necessary that it be primary), and an extended partition for everything
> else - then split that however you want (mine's actually an LVM).

oops.  While you can have / on an LVM, it introduces too much complexity
imo - so my extended partition includes a logical partition for the Linux
root filesystem _and_ the LVM for everything else.
-- 
derek