install on eee 1000h

[Liam Proven]

On 18 July 2012 14:02, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend with a somewhat older eee 1000h on it would like me to
> install ubuntu for her (will probably go with lubuntu as it works well
> off the usb and a regular install would probably be a bit much for
> this machine).
>
> However there are already 4 partitions on this machine.  One has only
> 39 megabytes on it.  Gparted lists it as a unknown type.  Since she
> needs to keep XP on here, how can I tell if deleting that partition
> will do harm?  Not found an answer by googling for it at least not so
> far.

Can you give us the whole list of partitions?

It might be some sort of system recovery or diagnostics volume.

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