mHo: If you're planning on making a box that dual boots between Windows and nix: Don't.
It's a waste of space and a headache to bounce back and forth. Far better to run one as a primary OS and one as a guest OS within it. Then you have full functionality of both without rebooting. VMWare Player is free and google around you'll find instructions how to get a virtualized Ubuntu or whatever linux distro you prefer setup and running with it under XP/Vista/Win7. On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM, K7AAY <[email protected]> wrote: > > 149GB hd from factory in my Lenovo SL400. Vista's Disk Management snap- > in shows this partitioning for Disk 0: > > Letter Volume Size Status > -- ----------- ------ ------------------------------------------- > S: SERVICE003 1004 MiB Healthy (System, Active, Primary > Partiion) > C: SW_Preload 135 GiB Healthy (Boot, Crash Dump, Primary > Partition) > unallocated 10 GiB recovered from C: w/ Disk Mgt snap-in & by > shrinking Q: w/ EASUS Part. Mgr. > Q: Lenovo 6 GiB Healthy (Primary Partition) > > It's my intent to install a Linux (eLive? Kubuntu? pcE17OS 2nd Ed.? > Dislike GNOME, fer sure) and I've been given to understand there's a > maximum of four (4) Primary Partitions on a hard drive, so how do I > overcome that? With extended partitions? Linux wants two partitions > (well, three, but since I have 2GB RAM, I think Linux will do OK sans > swap). > > Your on-topic responses are truly appreciated. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
