FB, thank you for a well-reasoned post which was smack-dab on target.
On May 3, 10:15 pm, Fletcher Bonds <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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