Perhaps the fact that 8.04 is the Long Term Support version is useful to 
some people?

FWIW, I tend to create /home as a separate partition in gparted, so that 
when I install a new (version of an) OS, I can keep my files etc. Maybe 
a little fiddly for the first time installer, but worth keeping in mind.

Johan

William G. Scott wrote:
> Both 8.04 and 8.10 (the current Ubuntu version -- why not install that?) 
> have gparted, a very easy to use gui partition editor interface.  The 
> defaults are almost certainly what you need, and you can rearrange the 
> sizes of the partitions interactively from the install CD.
> 
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> On Jan 17, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Xie Jiabao wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>> My sincere apologies at the outset for a non-ccp4 question. I am 
>> trying to install ubuntu-8.04.1 (64-bit) linux on my windows xp 
>> containing core2 laptop so as to create a dual boot system. At the 
>> moment windows xp is installed on a 30GB partition and there is 
>> another 20 GB FAT32 partition which was created to share data between 
>> windows and linux once the latter was installed, and 110 GB of free 
>> space. I have a few questions which I would like addressed before I 
>> install linux.
>>
>> a)  I would like to create a linux swap partition of 4-6 GB and have 
>> the rest as an ext3 linux partition. Should these new partitions be 
>> primary or logical partitions? What is the difference between primary 
>> and logical partitions?
>>
>> b) Should these new partitions be located at the end of my hard disk 
>> since Windows likes to be next to the first sector (MBR)?
>>
>> c) Should the new partitions be mounted as /swap and /root or /home?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Xie
>>
>>
>>
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