| === ibuclaw1 is now known as ibuclaw | ||
| sileni | hey | 19:14 |
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| sileni | i bought the hp mini 1000 and it came preloaded with xp | 19:14 |
| vimpulse | sileni: please state your whole problem on one long long line. | 19:14 |
| vimpulse | :) | 19:14 |
| sileni | i want to dual boot ubuntu so i downloaded ubuntu 8.10 into the 2 gb usb drive and started the installer.. when it came to the partition part it won't let me resize the windows xp partition. I have 15.6 gb total disk space and xp already takes up 6 GB so i thought i would let xp have 8gb and the rest would go for ubuntu. Can someone help me get through this ? | 19:15 |
| sileni | sorry for posting in 3 lines | 19:15 |
| vimpulse | sileni: it's ok. | 19:16 |
| === Mamarok_ is now known as Mamarok | ||
| sileni | dang | 19:25 |
| sileni | i didnt even know i lost connection | 19:25 |
| vimpulse | sileni: you didn't. | 19:25 |
| vimpulse | sileni: ask in #ubuntu for faster response. warning: it's busy. | 19:25 |
| sileni | ok | 19:25 |
| sileni | vimpulse: hey | 21:06 |
| sileni | vimpulse: you there bro? | 21:06 |
| vimpulse | sileni: yep | 21:06 |
| sileni | i fininally figured out why i couldn't partition | 21:06 |
| vimpulse | sileni: [ in #ubuntu you must repeat your question every 5 min. were you? :) ] | 21:06 |
| vimpulse | sileni: why not? | 21:06 |
| sileni | vimpulse: for some reason i needed to run something called checkdsk | 21:06 |
| vimpulse | sileni: did ubuntu not tell you that?? | 21:07 |
| sileni | vimpulse: after i did that in xp | 21:07 |
| sileni | vimpulse: no ubuntu told me nothing i just found an article on google | 21:07 |
| sileni | vimpulse: now i resized the partitions to make the xp partition be 8.6 GB and 7.7 gb is freed up for linux | 21:07 |
| vimpulse | sileni: that is a problem with ubuntu - bad reporting. you should complain. | 21:07 |
| sileni | vimpulse: can you please tell me what parittions i need to make on that 7.7 | 21:07 |
| vimpulse | sileni: you have 2 gb ram right? | 21:08 |
| sileni | vimpulse: only one :-\ | 21:08 |
| sileni | 16 gb ssd 1 gb ram | 21:08 |
| sileni | this computer has 5 gb ram so i can run heavy apps on here | 21:08 |
| vimpulse | sileni: what IDE are you gonna run? | 21:08 |
| vimpulse | on linux | 21:08 |
| sileni | vimpulse: right now i just use g++ in terminal. i don't know about future classes yet | 21:08 |
| vimpulse | sileni: g++ is fine with 1GB RAM | 21:09 |
| vimpulse | sileni: how many web browser tabs you ever have open at once? | 21:09 |
| sileni | like 5 max | 21:09 |
| vimpulse | sileni: make it all one big / partition, plus a 512MB swap partition at the end. | 21:09 |
| vimpulse | sileni: if programs crash "Out of Memory", expand the swap partition. | 21:10 |
| sileni | ok | 21:10 |
| sileni | but don't need home? | 21:10 |
| vimpulse | sileni: it's tough to make these decisions on such a small netbook. | 21:10 |
| vimpulse | sileni: you can have a separate home partition if you want. | 21:10 |
| sileni | vimpulse: yes i would liek that | 21:10 |
| sileni | how big does a root partition have to be ? | 21:10 |
| vimpulse | sileni: make 5.2 gb /, then 2 gb home, then rest swap | 21:11 |
| sileni | ok | 21:11 |
| sileni | thank you so much | 21:11 |
| vimpulse | sileni: glad to help. | 21:11 |
| sileni | it should be ext3 right? | 21:12 |
| vimpulse | yeah | 21:12 |
| sileni | ok so i have 5.1 gb / ...2 gb /home and 526 mb swap ... that fills it and root and /home are both ext3 | 21:14 |
| sileni | does that sound right? | 21:14 |
| vimpulse | sileni: yep | 21:14 |
| vimpulse | sileni: stop worrying and just click "Go". | 21:14 |
| sileni | ehhe | 21:15 |
| sileni | hopefully everything will end up nice | 21:16 |
| vimpulse | sileni: newbie tips: | 21:16 |
| vimpulse | sileni: 1. never reinstall Linux. you can always fix things without reinstalling. | 21:17 |
| sileni | vimpulse: ok | 21:17 |
| vimpulse | sileni: 2. never download software off the web. Always use Start menu > Add/Remove which downloads and installs for you quickly and easily | 21:17 |
| vimpulse | sileni: 3. gaim is MSN Messenger | 21:17 |
| sileni | well i liked pidgin it takes care of everything >< | 21:17 |
| vimpulse | sileni: oops, i meant pidgin not gaim | 21:18 |
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