On Sunday 09 April 2006 23:58, Stephen Mirowski wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I just bought this thing, and have spent the evening doing a little >> housecleaning and exploring using the deafult XP Home edition OS >> thats on it, and trying to get used to the 'mouse' tablet as a >> navigator tool and have a few questions. And please excuse me but >> this is the first 'windoze' machine I've ever bought. >> >> If I wanted to put linux on this, should I use the i386 dvd of FC5 I >> already have, or go get the AMD64 version? >> >> It has an approximately 7.5GB partition D which is an image of the >> install for recovery usage. I've no idea where it is on the disk >> but I'd assume (theres THAT word again) that its at the inside of >> the 100GB drive thats in this. So the question then is how does one >> go about clearing some space to make room for an FC5 install without >> losing that inside partitions location data and hence that whole >> partition? >> >> Thats enough questions for one message I think, and many thanks to >> those who attempt to help a windows newbie get back to his favorite >> OS. :-) > >As far as I recall, the hidden partitions are just that. A data drive >without a letter >assigned in Windows. It is in fact assigned to drive 'D' when you inspect the drives properties. >If you went into Administrative Tools / Disk >Management, >you probably could assign it a letter and access the files. I would >guess it's the >first primary partition of the HDD. I would guess just installing the >boot loader >to the MBR just the same if it wasn't there would be okay, just don't >delete that >partition or use it for Linux FS. > >You could back it up to a DVD or another computer if you assign it a >driver letter. The dvd is a dual layer Lightscribe, so I assume this would serve as a backup if I get the dual layer disks? According to the properties its (D) about 7.8GB, with 650 megs free. Is this a basicly 'ghost' image? >I have installed OSs w/ leaving the hidden partition on my IBM lapper >before, but >I never had a reason to use the stuff on that drive, so if any > negative effects occurred, >I am unaware of. (After awhile I blew that thing away so I have have >more space >for me =) ) > Unless I give this to the missus when I get back from a long out of town session, that may happen. She was complaining the other day she didn't have a computer to use, but from what I've been able to discern, her computer knowledge is at about the level of a dual floppy (one broken) school version Packard Bell from about 1992 or so. 286, 4 megs of ram in the deluxe models yadda yadda... The first thing I did tonight after getting in up on my home network, behind a bulletproof firewall, was send it after all the M$ updates, about 35-40 of them all told. >Hopefully others here have some thoughts on this. Yes, all input is appreciated. Thanks Stephen. >Stephen -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
