Yes, the install gives you the options to
- squeeze whatever is on the disk and make a partition to install on from the rest
- wipe whole disk and install there (probably going to have a choice if there is more than one disk)
- do a manual formatting (then you can pick partition sizes for system, /home and swap, and (although I haven't been through that option lately) should give you choice between ext2, ext3 and maybe ReiserFS file systems).
Unless you have something specific in mind you can just go with the wipe everything and install. Although when I first started fiddling with Linux I was fond of making a separate partition for the /home directory - since I messed up stuff badly enough a couple of times to just need to reinstall (and having personal files on another partition was a plus). That was on a main PC though, plus there wasn't so much help readily available on the net, and the whole Linux thing wasn't as user-friendly back then.
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