Hello UM Community,
I’m new to the world of Linux. I’ve never tried any distros before. I was looking for way to re-use my old Dell WinXP tower and a friend suggested installing Ubuntu-Mate. He gave me a copy of the live disc to test. After trying it out, I’m sold! Great job Mate team! I actually can’t wait to use it
I don’t really have a need to keep XP and I already backed up my files so I can completely erase the disk. I was reading wolfman’s beginner’s guide to installing UM, even the suggested GParted guide to partitioning, as well as other "install" guides, but I’m still kind of lost. I thought about using the second option “Erase Disk,” but I didn’t find a guide for it and wasn’t sure if it would automatically create 3 partitions for me as recommended. Does it?
I’d rather be safe than sorry so here I ask. Please bear with me.
Here are my system specs. It shows that the architecture can support 64-bit. Should I install the 64-bit UM instead?
I have two HDDs installed. Here’s the original one (boot disk). This is where I plan to install Mate unless otherwise suggested.
Here’s the 2nd one which I installed a few years later. I was using this for DAW purposes and I set it up to dual boot so only I can use it. I created two partitions back then, one for back up (MainStorage) and the other for my DAW files (DAW Storage). I can get rid of the DAW Storage if I need to.
Here’s the GParted breakdown of the first HDD. This is where I got stuck (and scared). How should I proceed from here? If you can give me step by step procedure, that would be awesome! Other recommendations are welcome as well.
I apologize if this is kind of similar to other posts, but I just couldn't proceed confidently with the others that I've read.
Thanks guys!