Disk partitions

[Jorge Gusmao]

:) noob windows user is very happy with ubuntu fellowship :)
I shall not giveup. But im also with the strong feeling I will be returning
with more issues. :P
Thanks a lot guys.




On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at charter.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:06 +0000, Jorge Gusmao wrote:
> > I can see now that I forgot to include de image disks.png (will
> > include it later on)
> > Anyway, my disk configuration has allready 3 or 4 primary partitions
> > on disk 1 > System > OS (windows) > HP recovery > Storage > other i
> > cant remember.
> >
> >
> This is typical for HP laptops now: 4 primary partitions, the last of
> which is a very small one labeled "HP TOOLS."  I suppose one of the
> motivations for doing this is to make it harder for people to install
> other operating systems.
>
> We bought one of these last month and simply saved the contents of HP
> TOOLS to an external drive.  Brave hardware oriented wife then booted
> with either parted magic or systemrescue cd (can't remember; they're
> both wonderful), used gparted to shrink the windows 7 partition, moved
> the rest down and created an extended partition.  The first logical
> partition in the extended was labeled HP TOOLS and got the saved
> contents.  Apparently, the repair system finds it by disk label and
> doesn't care if it is actually on partition 4 or partition 5 (the first
> logical partition).
>
> We installed Mint 9 (an Ubuntu 10.04 respin) on on the rest of the
> logical partition space with the simple /, swap, /home layout.  As
> others have written, linux doesn't care where it boots from and no
> longer needs /boot to be at the beginning of the disk.  Since this is an
> LTS version we're pretty much done for the commercial life of the
> laptop.
>
> We were strongly tempted to just wipe nasty Win7 off entirely, but what
> the heck, we paid the Microsoft tax so we might as well have it.  It is
> really annoying to use with all of HP's nanny stuff constantly reminding
> you that your machine is in terrible danger.  Our taxes are very
> complicated so I need a full-blown bare metal installation of tax
> software; I'm working with it on this HP laptop now.  After I get my DCN
> I doubt I'll boot Win7 again until next tax time.
>
> Jorge, courage! it can be done.
>
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