HP Laptop (Defeat acknowledged)

[Derek Broughton]

Stew Schneider wrote:

> Howard Coles wrote:
>> And I had to do the same thing as Mark (I think it was) wrote above on
>> my Dell, because Vista does something really stupid to the
>> partitioning.
>> The problem is, I don't think HP ships an installable version of
>> Vista, I think their recovery DVD/CD is strictly a re-imaging type
>> recovery so that you couldn't define partition sizes, etc.

It wasn't a problem.  I did this on an HP Pavilion 6000.  Delete Vista
partition, create small partition with an Ubuntu LiveCD, boot from the HP
recovery partition to recreate Vista (then delete, again, all the garbage
that HP adds - the Microsoft garbage is bad enough, but to have almost a
gigabyte taken up with HP games [that cost $ to play] is infuriating). 
Then install Kubuntu into the free space.
>>   
> I think you're right and I hadn't considered that. I'm even happier that
> I quit when I did. This is the second Vista box I've tried to put an
> operating system on, and have run into the same problem. Vista is doing
> something goofy with the HD.

I don't think so - at least not with those portions it knows it doesn't own.  
-- 
derek