On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:56:52 -0800, chevysrock39 wrote:

> I am not too experienced with PartitionMagic, I just got it to make a
> separate partition for docs. What is a Swap partition? (feeling
> stoopid) I feel like a 2 year old, who can't do anything on his own.
> Please help, instructions for this are like a foreign language!
>
Lucky for you, the internet has been invented. Anything you don't know
can be researched at the tip of your fingers. For example, your
initial post indicated you had selected Ubuntu linux. I don't know much
about that distribution, but I could find out easily enough by looking
through the website:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Also, this is a nice article; note, all of the hyperlinks for related
concepts as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux

With all of the resources and documentation that is out there, my
initial post was as much spoon feeding I'm going to do. You will need
to do more research to find out where you need more help.

That is one approach. The other approach is to throw caution to the wind.
Your initial post hinted you weren't too worried about destroying your
system. Going further along that route, you could just go ahead and
install Ubuntu, and see if you can follow along well enough to see what
the install will do automatically for you. This approach assumes that
if you totally hose your system that you have at least the expertise to
put it back.

--
Douglas Mayne