:) 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. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Pongo A. Pan <<a href="mailto:pongo_pan@charter.net">pongo_pan@charter.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">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. > > </div>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. -- pongo -- <div><div></div><div class="h5">ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> <div style="visibility: hidden; left: -5000px; position: absolute; z-index: 9999; padding: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 130%;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"> </div>