Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I just did the same thing with a different HP Turion-based laptop (Compaq v5000z). The steps I took were: 1) boot the stock os and run the defragmention tool. 2) download the "gpartd" iso and burn onto cd/dvd. 3) boot the gpartd dvd and reduce the first partition size to something much lower. 4) download and burn fc5 onto a dvd 5) boot the fc5 dvd and have it use the "unused space" as the FC5 partition So far I haven't reclaimed the D partition, but if push comes to shove I just tack it on to the end of the linux partition. > 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? Personally I got an amd64 to do 64-bit address space things with. Running it in 32-bit mode seemed really wasteful. > 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. :-) I know very little about ms-windows. The only thing I found it useful for was to test the wireless card. The broadcom-based card in my machine (bcm4318) still doesn't show up under FC5 but works fine on the stock os. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Direct SIP URL Dialing: http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/phonedirectory.html
