how can i see how many sistems on my laptop?

[Kent Nyberg]

fre 2005-05-20 klockan 14:54 -0400 skrev Michael Beattie:
> On 5/20/05, Elcin Bextiyar Memmedzade
> <arazaxirelcinellersadolur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi, 
> >  i recently installed on my laptop Ubuntu hoary. when it ask me for
> > partition, i have made some changes for the second time in my life
> > installing linux sistem. but i am not sure that i do clean that win xp from
> > my laptop or not.  when i turn on my laptop, it do not ask me for different
> > sistem launching... but , i wonder if i did not make smth. that make it to
> > ask me about that.
> >  so, how can i see how many sistems on my laptop?
> >  best regards,
> 
> Normally GRUB will show you what systems are there to boot.  You can
> type "mount" to see if your / partition is mounted on /dev/hda1. 
> Additionally you can also check what partitions you have available by
> using fdisk "sudo fdisk /dev/hda" and then pressing p to print the
> partition table.  That will let you see if there's an NTFS partition
> that windows is on.


And if it feels to frightening to use fdisk to browse the partitions
(some might do) then "sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda" will use fdisk to only
print the partitions and do nothing more than that. That way it cant go
wrong :)


-- 
Kent Nyberg <nyberg.kent at spray.se>
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