installation question

[Deryl R. Doucette]

On 10-09-03 12:37 PM, J wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:45, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
[SNIP]

> One solution could be to remove one of those partitions, at which
> point the installer would allow you to resize the rest and do the side
> by side install.
> But you need to BE SURE of what is contained in those partitions...
> 
> From what you've said so far, it appears you've got C: as the Windows
> 7 drive, D: is probably the restore partition, and E: contains a bunch
> of HP tools.
> 
> Personally, I'd dump the HP Tools partition, but that's just me.
> 
> But not being familiar with how HP sets up their restore stuff... I
> dunno... at the very least, your only options at this point are A:
> remove one of those partitions, which frees up partition entries to
> allow for an extended and logical setup as shown above, or B: use Wubi
> and install inside windows itself... thought there's a bit of pain
> there of a different sort :)
> 

For my HP Compaq Presario CQ61 I had 3 primary partitions. The first was
a 210MB FAT16 booting partition, then the NTFS Windows 7 partition, and
then a 'hidden' NTFS HP Tools/Rescue/Driver/Installation files partition.

What I did, before I just trashed all of them and installed Ubuntu 10.04
LTS replacing everything, was:

FIRST TIME: Made the Windows Rescue/Installation DVD set, used the wubi
to 'cut' the Windows partition and make some free space and then made a
linux extended partition inside which I made logical root (/), home
(/home), and swap partitions. This gave me the 4 primaries.


SECOND TIME: Wiped out the HP Tools partition and used the free space to
make a linux extended partition inside which I made logical root (/),
home (/home), and swap partitions. After FIRST TIME, but prior to this
time, I'd used the rescue DVD images to set the drives back to factory
settings which is why this became a 'second time' hehe.

Eventually, i decided to go straight Linux and wiped everything and used
the entire drive for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS  :)

-- 
Deryl R. Doucette

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