[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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