HP Laptop (Defeat acknowledged)

[Derek Broughton]

Stew Schneider wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 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.
> "Boot from the HP recovery partition" = "Boot from the HP recovery DVD"?
> 
> What size partition did you create for VISTA? It seems to require an
> awful chunk...something like three solar masses...

21GB!  It's there until I need the space, then it's history :-)  I haven't
used it yet...
-- 
derek