install on eee 1000h

[Doug]

On 07/18/2012 11:06 AM, G. wrote:
> 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
>
You might boot a live Linux system, and try and read what's on the 
partitions.
You might find that there is nothing useful there.

--doug

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