On Monday 10 April 2006 00:21, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >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 > Thanks, sounds like a decent plan to follow. >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. Well, many of the linux apps aren't 64 bit clean yet, and I'd druther have the ability to run _anything_... >> 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. So does this one, but theres no other 802-11 stuff within reach I guess. I don't have any as the one long piece of cat5 I have would, if replaced by an 802-11 lashup, probably be a wee bit too long for stock antennas. Or drown out the neighbors should they ever want to do that. Thanks Wolfgang. >-wolfgang >-- >Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ >Direct SIP URL Dialing: > http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/phonedirectory.html -- 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.
