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I am new to Ubuntu and Linux in general. I was wondering if anyone can help me or can point me in the right direction on how to do the following:

1.) Customize a fresh clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on to my hard drive.

2.) I have 2x120gig ssd hard drives, I want one of those hard drives to be partitioned into SDA1 where the core Ubuntu files will be located (about 10 gigs) and then SDA2 where some 12 gigs will be dedicated to swapping and the rest would utilities like video players, system tools and such

3.) The other hard drive will be dedicated to person files and programs (ie gaming). I am not sure if I should also create a swap partition for this drive, any suggestions?

Everytime I try to re-install and partition according to the above failed because of a "Missing root file" or something to that effect, so far I had no luck understanding all the mount points either.

If anyone can help me do this, I will be extremely thrilled!

user93179
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Linux is not like windows. Most programs are installed in different directories under / known as root. It would be hard to separate out these files. When installing Linux on any computer I have one which is / and one small partition as swap. The other partition I make /home. you can read more about partitioning here Linux Tips Disk Partitioning

When your installing you can use the gparted program to partition your drive the way you like. You can do what I described or you can use the suggestion in the linux tips on Disk partitioning. I would recommend watching what drive grub will be on it should be on the root drive. I made the mistake of not watching and put it on the other drive and couldn't boot. I could have fixed it I just reinstalled.

The nice thing about have /home on another partition is you can installed something like kubuntu and keep /home. All your files will still be there.

Timothy
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The missing root file means you have not set a "/" mount point. When I get back to my computer I will try to compile a tutorial for you (with images).