[j4ckaL]

hmm, well I'm needing to burn Linux distro to cd and waht are the kind of cds I need called? I only have music cd-r disks right now...

[The General]

All CD-R's are exactly the same, I have no idea why they call them "Music CD-Rs" or "Data CD-Rs" because they are all exactly the same. Burning the distro on one of those discs will work exactly like it will on any CD-R.

[j4ckaL]

I don't know why it didn't work for me then. I tried using CDBurnerXP Pro 3 to burn Ubuntu and I tried using a "music" cd-r and it told me that the cd was not blank.... it was blank though. I'll try again with a different brand of cd-r and maybe that will work...

[macdude425]

Make absolutely sure you burned it as an IMAGE.

[j4ckaL]

Well it worked after I tried it again... I did everything the same so I don't know what the problem was the first time.

Anyway, I guess I'll install this thing now. What file system should I use? there are 10 to choose from. XD

probably ext3? I heard that ext2 is slightly faster but ext3 is more stable, is that true?

[macdude425]

ext3=ext2+journaling. So you don't really see any hit in speed.

I prefer ReiserFS, though I rarely get to use it for the sake that Mac OS X doesn't like it.

ALSO, do not forget a swap file if you have less than 1 GB RAM. Rule of thumb is:
-If you have less than 512MB physical RAM, make your swap partition double the size of how much physical RAM you have
-If you have MORE than 512MB physical RAM, make your swap partition the same size as the amount of RAM you have.
-If you have MORE than 1GB of physical RAM, you probably won't need swap, but it's never a bad idea to have one around anyways

[Sevoma]

I recommend ext3. It is a tried-and-true filesystem that is stable and relativley fast. It does not fragment much, nor does it have as much of a chance of becoming corrupted as reiserfs if it has a hard reboot or shutdown.

[j4ckaL]

Ok I'll go with ext3 then. Now I need some help though. I don't know what to do at this stage in the graphical install process:

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...Screenshot.png

I have two partitions on my hard disk and I want to install Ubuntu on partition 2 (partition 1 has Windows XP). So what do I select for the drop down menus on the left? Also, can the root file system and the swap file be in the same partition with eachother (partition 2) ?

EDIT: Is this what I need to do?
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...reenshot-1.png

[Law]

You're really going to use 116 Gig for Ubuntu?

You're doing it wrong, you need to mount the root directory / to sda2 and create another partition either logical or primary for the swap partition, which would be sda3 or if it's the first logical sda5.

Or you can choose not to create a swap partition if you have plenty of RAM, 1 gig or more. But it's a good idea to create a swap partition for Linux to fall back to. The swap partition can act as backup, storing things in memory that aren't used and freeing up your physical memory.

Sda1 would be your XP partition I assume.