Here is a picture of my hdd's partition table :
I wish to install Ubuntu in the free space shown in the below picture. However I don't understand how to configure the installation. I chose the something else option at the installation menu, after which the installation type window was displayed. I selected the free space and pressed the + button beside the Change.... Then a window popped up :
I want to use the entire space for my ubuntu installation hence didn't make any changes in the size. Didn't understand the Use as: drop down so I let that be. The only change I made was selecting \ in the mount point. Then clicked OK and Install. Then this box popped up :
I didn't understand what to do next, so I quit. Please tell me what options I need to select to install Ubuntu in that 100Gb(93.14Gb) of free space. Thanks!
Best Answer
The installer is warning you that you have not created or configured a swap partition. On low memory systems, having a swap partition can increase performance by making more physical memory available, because the system can write out allocated but unused memory pages to disk.
If you have a large amount of physical memory (>8GB) then you probably do not need a swap space for a desktop system. If you have low memory (<2GB) then you might want to enable swap.
If you do decide to enable swap, you will need to create an extra partition of the appropriate size, and in the "Use as" drop down select "Swap".
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