Disk partitions

[Jorge Gusmao]

Hi ppl!
it`s done! At least for now the system is running on my desktop at work with
a dual boot.
All I did was formating and partitioning the disk as told and removed some
hp software from windows like hp updater and others.

What would be your advise now to carry on with my learnings about ubuntu?

thanks again!
Jorge



On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Jorge Gusmao <jorge.m.gusmao at gmail.com>wrote:

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