installation question

[G.]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Deryl R. Doucette <david at pgpkeys.net> wrote:
> 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]
>
>
> 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
>
>

It would be a lot easier to go straight to Ubuntu.  Thanks for sharing.

gary