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[Tom <question77535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77535 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77535

Tom proposed the following answer:
Lol, Ok, Ap seems to have been confused about what i'm suggesting so to
clarify my proposal.

1. Boot up LiveCd of Ubuntu or any other gnu/linux distro
2. Sort out the way partitions are layed out & formatted 
3. Install Windows to sda2
4. Install Ubuntu

In step 4 i'm suggesting using "Manual Partitioning" (which you'd also
have to do if you followed AP's advice).  This option is usually the
bottom of 3 options and is easily missed because the top 2 options
"Automatic" & "Guided" (or some-such choices, maybe the first one is
called "Entire" now) have a nice graphic but the bottom choice "Manual"
doesn't.  When you choose "Manual" it has to rescan the drive which was
scary for a moment but then it shows how you've laid out your
partitions.  This is when you can edit the linux partitions so that the
"Mount Point" of sda3 is set to "/" which might also be called "Root".
Then edit sda5 to have a "Mount Point" called "/home".

Alternatively - install Windows to fill the entire drive, then use
"Guided Partitioning" and see how that goes.

Either of those 2 ways of installing are good but AP's suggestion of
installing Windows to only fill half the drive will then mean that
"Guided Partitioning" will ignore the empty half and will instead just
take half the space you gave to Windows! lol

I've done a lot of Windows installs and a fair few dual-boot installs
but i think AP doesn't have Windows on his system at all <shrugs>
Admirable and good for getting linux-only advice from, especially given
his extensive in-depth experience of linux.

Anyway, it's your choice and whatever you do it should be fairly easy to
adapt things after install or sometime later, if you're not completely
happy with it.  Remember that linux offers such a huge variety of
options that each of us can get quite heated about what "the right way"
is but ultimately there's only 1 right way and that's your own (or in my
case my neighbours way - until i try his and he tries mine at which
point i realise that my way had been best ;) lol).  Linux offers freedom
OF choice.  Windows gives freedom FROM choice.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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