install on eee 1000h

[G.]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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sda1 ntfs  82 gigs used 21, unused 60, boot
sda2 ntfs   37 gigs, 3 gig used no flags
unallocated 24 gigs (I created this for Lubuntu)
sda3 (Labled P3),  4.89 gigs, 3 .28 used, flags- hidden, lba
sda4  ! file system unknown 47MiB  no flags

sorry lubuntu does not seem to have a screen shot on live cd

gary