Compaq Pesario CQ50-139WM

[Mike McMullin]

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 12:05 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> >   
> >> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>     
> >>>     I bought the subject lap top this morning and of course it has Vista 
> >>> Basic on it. At any Wal Mart they are on sale for $298.00 plus tax. I am 
> >>> letting Vista get updated and then will load Hardy.
> >>>
> >>>     It's a real good looking lap top.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Karl
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>     I am having trouble loading any Linux on the subject lap top. I 
> >> tried 2 LiveCD of Hardy and they error out to Busybox always. I tried 
> >> the 8.10 LiveCD and it comes up fine but I'm having a problem. Here is 
> >> what it looks like to GParted:
> >>
> >> /dev/sda1    ntfs          139.71 GB  using 20.54 GB UNused 119.17
> >> /dev/sda2    ntfs    label PRESARIO_RP 9.34 GB using 7.64
> >> Unallocated   1.34 MB
> >>
> >>     Need to get some of /dev/sda1, like 100 GB moved to Unallocated but 
> >> it has an error every time I try to Resize/Move /dev/sda1. What am I 
> >> doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > 20081108 1249 GMT-5
> >
> > What is the error?
> >
> > Wade
> >
> >   
>     I can't find any error data. This is of course on the LiveCD and 
> things are not the same as with a real computer. I have no idea where to 
> look :-)
> 
> Karl

  More than likely the sda2 partition is going to be used for backup
images and is physically located right next the sda1 partition.  My Acer
laptop had three partitions, one hidden with the restore image on it,
the main with Win-XPMedia edition, and the third for the backup images,
so what's on sda2? because you may need to nuke it, and replace it
during re-partitioning.