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By Arun, 5 months and 8 days ago

Installed Ubuntu 8.04 in my Quad core system

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 in my Quad core desktop 2 days back. The installation was smooth. The only issue I had was with partitioning. I usually create separate partitions in my hard drive for boot, root, home and swap directories before installation, but I didn't do that this time. I first thought of using the Guided Partition in Ubuntu installer, but I wasn't sure how it would partition. I never used that before, so I fired up GParted from the live CD and created partitions for the ext3 file system and installed Ubuntu.

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