Installing Ubuntu can literally be as easy as typing in some very basic information, and clicking next a few times. There is, however always some room for tweaking.

The first tweak starts before I even install. Well, it’s not really a tweak, but worth mentioning, at least. I always use the “Alternate Install” CD. I like the control of the traditional Debian installer better. It feels more like I’m installing an Operating System!
Now, we will get into installing Ubuntu:

Partitioning:

There are many schools of thought on this. I can’t possibly explain every possible configuration here, and I won’t attempt to. Like the rest of the guide to follow, I will tell you what I have, and what I have set up - it’s up to you to interpret this and decide for yourself how to proceed.

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Filesystems:

For / and /home I stick with ext3 - for no particular reason than I know it works (and can be tweaked to be quite fast - more on that later).

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