06-12-2012
Installing Ubuntu
Hi all- I'm getting ready to install Ubuntu onto my Sony Vaio laptop and had a few questions for which I have not yet found the answer.
1)Should I partition my hdd myself (including a swap partition) in Windows or should I do this when installing Ubuntu? When I do partition, since I have over 400GBs free on my drive, should I divide those pretty much in two (200 GB of free space for Windows, on top of the 60GB it is already using, and 200GB for Ubuntu), or should I partition the drive in 3, so that in case I want to install a third OS on there (like another Linux distro, Kubuntu or somethnig), I will have that partition ready to go?
2)Will updating Windows override GRUB, and if so, what can I do about this?
3)Should I burn the ISO on a DVD/CD or just put in on a USB drive? If I burn, should I use a third party program like ImgBurnr or use the stock burner that comes with Win 7? Lastly, the Win 7 burner asks me what type of format I want the disc to be burned as: Live File System or Mastered. I read up on the differences, and it appears that the Live File System "only works on Windows XP or later versions of Windows" so does this mean I cannot boot from it if it is Live File as opposed to Mastered?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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HD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual HD(4)
NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave
hdd.
General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
partition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order
the partitions are discovered, and only non-empty, non-extended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
four partitions described in the MBR (the `primary' partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logi-
cal partition will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions
on an IDE disk.
For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on the
second one.
They are typically created by:
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
chown root:disk /dev/hd*
FILES
/dev/hd*
SEE ALSO
mknod(1), chown(1), mount(8), sd(4)
Linux 1992-12-17 HD(4)