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[hellnoire]

I don't use Tomboy, Tracker, the default games, Sound Juicer, Ekiga, Pidgin, Brasero, and Rhythmbox.

I use OpenArena and other games, nothing to rip CDs/DVDs, Gedit for Tomboy (I just need a text editor, nothing complex), Catfish, Skype, emesene, K3B, and XMMS/Audacious.

[blackrose]

I am trying to dual boot windows 7 and redhat and in second thought I always have to leave it. Since then I have been lazy and never done that.. I did not appear for my RHCE exam also.. thats very sad. I am planning to appear this year but still I am very far from that.

[dramit]

Do NOT select Manual unless you know what you're doing. !

hi ,
I did a little experiment. 1st I dual booted Win7 & Ubuntu. Ran partition manager and gave a look at it and with a guess work I did following ,starting as a fresh install :-
Selected Manual > partitioned 2 gb as Swap (of 160 gb HD) > partitioned next 100 as Ext4 under " / " mode > left about 58gb as free space and pressed install. and it installed !!!!
after booting using disk utility I formatted the remaining free space as ntfs and its working !!!
now my questions are:-
1. what is SWAP and during installation what size should i assign it?
2. is it okay to keep both Ext4 and Ntfs. if no then which format is better and why?

[Bearcat]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
This will explain what Swap is much better than I can. When I installed Ubuntu a while back, I let the partitioner select the size of the Swap partition. I selected 15 gigs for the OS and left the remainder as NTFS for storage. Ubuntu can access a NTFS partition so that isn't a problem.

[hellnoire]

Swap is like the paging file on Windows: if you're out of ram, files get swapped there. As for size, usually the old standard was double your ram, but if you have a good amount of ram, smaller is good too. Most times, I give about 512 mb to swap, since I have 6 gigs of ram to play with.

As for the formats, EXT* is NEEDED for Linux, NTFS is NEEDED for Windows. Keep them both.

[dramit]

@Bearcat
@Hellnoire
Thanks for the guidance.
I installed Ubuntu 11.4, but on restart the screen freezes where it shows ubuntu icon.Tried to install several times but same problem.
unable to find a solution.
should i revert back to 10.10?

[Bearcat]

@Bearcat
@Hellnoire
Thanks for the guidance.
I installed Ubuntu 11.4, but on restart the screen freezes where it shows ubuntu icon.Tried to install several times but same problem.
unable to find a solution.
should i revert back to 10.10?

You could re-install 10.10 and then try using the software update feature to install the 11.04 upgrade.
Another option might be to try using Wubi to install 11.04 within Windows. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-install

[Alboguy]

@Bearcat
@Hellnoire
Thanks for the guidance.
I installed Ubuntu 11.4, but on restart the screen freezes where it shows ubuntu icon.Tried to install several times but same problem.
unable to find a solution.
should i revert back to 10.10?

Maybe you PC/Notebook is not fully compatible with Ubuntu. I'd suggest you to wait till the new kernel updateand see if the problem still persists. If so then you can switch back to 10.10

[dramit]

@ Bearcat: Ok. instead for a clean install i will be upgrading. will let u know the results.
said bye bye to windows, ubuntu too good. i am able to do all the things which i did in win7.
and above all my system is 100 % Original

@ Alboguy : my net book HP Mini 110-3000 1.83GHz Intel AtomN475 processor 2GB of memory, 160GB hard drive.I don't know about its compatibility status. So if up-gradation doesn't works then i'll wait for the kernel to get updated.

[hellnoire]

You should be able to run it fine... now people can see why I moved away from Ubuntu... they try to change everything and bring in a LOT of bugs doing so.

Bearcat's idea is a sound one.