Novice query: Installation Help

[Liam Proven]

On 2 October 2013 17:20, AP <worldwithoutfences at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, if I understand it correctly, you mean to say that I have to select
> the manual partitioning scheme during installation. And after that, I have
> to make
>
> #1 primary partition for /
> #2 extended partition and inside it two, which are /home and /swap
>
> So overall, I am using two only partition which is *primary*. Even though
> the whole of the space would be occupied in only the above written two
> partitions, the other 3 primary partitions would remain as such though not
> made and not required. If I am wrong, please correct it.


Exactly, yes.

You can later shrink the partitions with GParted if you want to
experiment with a different distribution - it is safe to share the
same /home and swap partitions among multiple installations, so long
as you use a different user name for each one.

Or you can make another big primary partition and try out FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku, AROS, Plan 9 or any of the many other Free and
Open Source operating systems that exist today.

(Most non-Windows OSes need to have a primary partition to themselves.
Linux is rare in that it understands and can use the DOS/Windows
partitioning system as its own. IT doesn't have a "native" format; it
was first built on x86 PC-compatible computers. All the others came
from different types of computers.)


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