I am planning to install Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on an older laptop and have chosen the 32-bit version. This laptop has an Intel Celeron M CPU and 3GB RAM. The problem is that the HDD contains viruses and three Windows partitions. I want to only use Ubuntu MATE. How can I make sure that Windows, all parti…

You can have up to 4 primary partitions (1,2,3and4) and no more. So your swap partition is on an extended partition which starts at partition #5 and can go on from there (6,7,8and on). So yes, you have a standard install and good to go.

Can the UM installer merge all partitions into one and result in a safe system?

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wolfman 18 May 2016 09:22 7

Check out the partition guide here as I had already pointed out above and re-install creating 1 swap, 1 root and 1 home partitions!. :