[wellylug] laptop advice sought
Bill Christiansen
bill.christiansen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 14:27:53 NZST 2005
When I got my new 40 G hdd for my laptop I created a 5 G fat32
partition and then ran the laptop's recovery CD to install win 98 to
this partition, I then had the remaining 35 G for my Linux distros. I
would recommend PCLinuxOS - very functional & easy to install.
May pay to leave the "diagnostics" partition alone as may contain bios
related stuff.
Bill
On 7/22/05, bob dugan <bob.dugan at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> I just bought my first laptop [acer aspire 3002LCi]. It has preinstalled XP
> Home. The 40G hdd appears to have three partitions, two 18G fat32
> partitions and a smaller one containing "diagnostics".
>
> I want to install Linux on the Laptop and retain the XP OS. I have done this
> occasionally but not recently [windows 98] on a home PC.
>
> I am wondering whether there are any odd hooks that I should be aware of.
> Also, whether one distro is better suited than the others.
>
> I am not a programmer. Nor do I have any experience with XP or windows
> generally. For the last five or six years, all three of our family's PC run
> only Linux [RH8.0, suse9.2, and debian potato].
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
> Bob
>
>
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