Question: How Do I Partition a Hard Drive for Ubuntu Installation?

How do I partition my hard drive when installing Ubuntu?

If you have blank disk

1. Boot into Ubuntu Installation media. …
2. Start the installation. …
3. You will see your disk as /dev/sda or /dev/mapper/pdc_* (RAID case, * means that your letters are different from ours) …
4. (Recommended) Create partition for swap. …
5. Create partition for / (root fs). …
6. Create partition for /home .

Can I install Linux on a second hard drive?

Yes, Once Linux is installed on the other drive at boot up Grub bootloader will give you the option of Windows or Linux, Its basically a dual boot.