I dont have any option for making recovery cds. It gives option to make recovery USB stick. There are already four primary partitions, out of which 3 ie EFI system and 2 recovery partitions are hidden.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Michael <jm...@jagmail.southalabama.edu>wrote: > On 11/03/2012 10:38 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > >> I purchased the above laptop with win8 and touchscreen today. When I >> checked disk management I found that it already have 4 primary partitions; >> 1)500 mb recovery, >> 2) 500 mb for EFI >> 3) 687gb for running win8 and >> 4) 11.5gb for recovery partition. >> Though I can install debian in virtual machine, is there any possiblity >> of dual booting keeping recovery partitions as I do not want to forego >> warrenty. Any one has installed dual booting in such a system? >> >> -- >> L V Gandhi >> >> > L V, > > When you install, the partitioner will ask you several questions during > setup. DO NOT choose 'use entire disk.' Click/check only the 687G > partition and you'll be fine. > > Alternately, check you Windows help files. There may be a possibility > that you can create a set of restore CDs. There is on my Acer so I think > it fairly safe to assume that your Acer system has the same option. That > way, if you do botch your installation, you can always use your restore CDs. > > Keep us posted. > > Michael > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.org<debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org>with > a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**k75sqn$mb1$1...@ger.gmane.org<http://lists.debian.org/k75sqn$mb1$1...@ger.gmane.org> > > -- L V Gandhi
