Re: HP Pavilion LapTop, AMD Turion 64 cpu
- From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:20:49 -0400
On Sunday 09 April 2006 23:58, Stephen Mirowski wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I just bought this thing, and have spent the evening doing a little
housecleaning and exploring using the deafult XP Home edition OS
thats on it, and trying to get used to the 'mouse' tablet as a
navigator tool and have a few questions. And please excuse me but
this is the first 'windoze' machine I've ever bought.
If I wanted to put linux on this, should I use the i386 dvd of FC5 I
already have, or go get the AMD64 version?
It has an approximately 7.5GB partition D which is an image of the
install for recovery usage. I've no idea where it is on the disk
but I'd assume (theres THAT word again) that its at the inside of
the 100GB drive thats in this. So the question then is how does one
go about clearing some space to make room for an FC5 install without
losing that inside partitions location data and hence that whole
partition?
Thats enough questions for one message I think, and many thanks to
those who attempt to help a windows newbie get back to his favorite
OS. :-)
As far as I recall, the hidden partitions are just that. A data drive
without a letter
assigned in Windows.
It is in fact assigned to drive 'D' when you inspect the drives
properties.
If you went into Administrative Tools / Disk
Management,
you probably could assign it a letter and access the files. I would
guess it's the
first primary partition of the HDD. I would guess just installing the
boot loader
to the MBR just the same if it wasn't there would be okay, just don't
delete that
partition or use it for Linux FS.
You could back it up to a DVD or another computer if you assign it a
driver letter.
The dvd is a dual layer Lightscribe, so I assume this would serve as a
backup if I get the dual layer disks? According to the properties its
(D) about 7.8GB, with 650 megs free. Is this a basicly 'ghost' image?
I have installed OSs w/ leaving the hidden partition on my IBM lapperUnless I give this to the missus when I get back from a long out of town
before, but
I never had a reason to use the stuff on that drive, so if any
negative effects occurred,
I am unaware of. (After awhile I blew that thing away so I have have
more space
for me =) )
session, that may happen. She was complaining the other day she didn't
have a computer to use, but from what I've been able to discern, her
computer knowledge is at about the level of a dual floppy (one broken)
school version Packard Bell from about 1992 or so. 286, 4 megs of ram
in the deluxe models yadda yadda...
The first thing I did tonight after getting in up on my home network,
behind a bulletproof firewall, was send it after all the M$ updates,
about 35-40 of them all told.
Hopefully others here have some thoughts on this.
Yes, all input is appreciated. Thanks Stephen.
Stephen
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