Installing new distro, help partioning on Dell 5520 with factory Ubuntu installation
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I would like to install Kubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Precision 5520 that has Ubuntu factory-installed (basically=XPS Developer). I'm trying to understand how to partition my HDD for the installation. From what I gather Dell does 2 main things for their factory Ubuntu installs:
Basically they put together a pseudo-repository with some drivers and things.
They have a recovery tool, from which you can also download a recovery image/.iso (that I saved to a USB drive).
So, on the Kubuntu installer, I'm looking at manual partition and the things I want to accomplish are to do a nuke and install, and setup a /home partition.
This is how it's partitioned right now:
/dev/nvme0n1free space/p1 efi/p2 fat32(I'm assuming this is the recovery partition)/p3 ext4/p4 swap
and then:
/dev/sdafreespace
So, do I just format everything other than the /dev/sda and then:
- Add an EFI partition of some size.
- Add ext4 partition of some size.
- Add swap partition about half of RAM size.
- Add
/homepartition.
Assuming 1-3 are correct, what is the mount point for /home?
What am I missing? Thanks!
partitioning system-installation dell
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I would like to install Kubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Precision 5520 that has Ubuntu factory-installed (basically=XPS Developer). I'm trying to understand how to partition my HDD for the installation. From what I gather Dell does 2 main things for their factory Ubuntu installs:
Basically they put together a pseudo-repository with some drivers and things.
They have a recovery tool, from which you can also download a recovery image/.iso (that I saved to a USB drive).
So, on the Kubuntu installer, I'm looking at manual partition and the things I want to accomplish are to do a nuke and install, and setup a /home partition.
This is how it's partitioned right now:
/dev/nvme0n1free space/p1 efi/p2 fat32(I'm assuming this is the recovery partition)/p3 ext4/p4 swap
and then:
/dev/sdafreespace
So, do I just format everything other than the /dev/sda and then:
- Add an EFI partition of some size.
- Add ext4 partition of some size.
- Add swap partition about half of RAM size.
- Add
/homepartition.
Assuming 1-3 are correct, what is the mount point for /home?
What am I missing? Thanks!
partitioning system-installation dell
edited May 27 at 2:26
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asked May 27 at 0:41
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I would like to install Kubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Precision 5520 that has Ubuntu factory-installed (basically=XPS Developer). I'm trying to understand how to partition my HDD for the installation. From what I gather Dell does 2 main things for their factory Ubuntu installs:
Basically they put together a pseudo-repository with some drivers and things.
They have a recovery tool, from which you can also download a recovery image/.iso (that I saved to a USB drive).
So, on the Kubuntu installer, I'm looking at manual partition and the things I want to accomplish are to do a nuke and install, and setup a /home partition.
This is how it's partitioned right now:
/dev/nvme0n1free space/p1 efi/p2 fat32(I'm assuming this is the recovery partition)/p3 ext4/p4 swap
and then:
/dev/sdafreespace
So, do I just format everything other than the /dev/sda and then:
- Add an EFI partition of some size.
- Add ext4 partition of some size.
- Add swap partition about half of RAM size.
- Add
/homepartition.
Assuming 1-3 are correct, what is the mount point for /home?
What am I missing? Thanks!
partitioning system-installation dell
edited May 27 at 2:26
galoget
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asked May 27 at 0:41
dustinhuman
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I would like to install Kubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Precision 5520 that has Ubuntu factory-installed (basically=XPS Developer). I'm trying to understand how to partition my HDD for the installation. From what I gather Dell does 2 main things for their factory Ubuntu installs:
Basically they put together a pseudo-repository with some drivers and things.
They have a recovery tool, from which you can also download a recovery image/.iso (that I saved to a USB drive).
So, on the Kubuntu installer, I'm looking at manual partition and the things I want to accomplish are to do a nuke and install, and setup a /home partition.
This is how it's partitioned right now:
/dev/nvme0n1free space/p1 efi/p2 fat32(I'm assuming this is the recovery partition)/p3 ext4/p4 swap
and then:
/dev/sdafreespace
So, do I just format everything other than the /dev/sda and then:
- Add an EFI partition of some size.
- Add ext4 partition of some size.
- Add swap partition about half of RAM size.
- Add
/homepartition.
Assuming 1-3 are correct, what is the mount point for /home?
What am I missing? Thanks!
partitioning system-installation dell
edited May 27 at 2:26
galoget
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asked May 27 at 0:41
dustinhuman
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edited May 27 at 2:26
galoget
2,1062820
edited May 27 at 2:26
galoget
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edited May 27 at 2:26
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