Compaq Pesario CQ50-139WM

[Karl Larsen]

Mike McMullin wrote:
> 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
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>>> 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.
>
>
>   
    Well I did have to remove the big partition that had Vista that was 
/dev/sda1. I then made a new partition that was 20 GB and then a 15 GB 
for Linux and 2 GB swap. I loaded 8.10 without problem.

    The read the book that came with the lap-top and used the re-install 
from the hard drive instructions and it worked just fine!

    But now I am having troubles with 8.10 which are not good.

Karl


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