On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:18:09AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Anyone have any good reasons why this would be a bad bet for Ubuntu?
Not that I can think of, not sure what Compaq machines are like in general.
Should I go 32-bit or 64-bit install?
64 bit!
Any good partitioning suggestions for its 1TB drive?
Buy another one, RAID1 the disks up and then use lvm to setup the space nicely and allow you to change it in future... Although, if it's a desktop you could just go mad and have 1 giant partition...
Adam