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. I got this far, downloading and burning the "System_Rescue_disk", which contains a progam called run_qtparted on it. >3) boot the gpartd dvd and reduce the first partition size to > something much lower. Booted ok, ran run_qtparted on a 1024x768 screen, and resized /dev/hda1 down to about 25GB. Unforch, regardless of the size I leave /dev/hda1, about 5 seconds after clicking OK, to (I assume) commit the changes to the drive, it comes back with this message in a box: "Filesystem check failed! Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches." I have now gone around this bush till the ground is bare under my feet. The prompt at the command line shell says root@sysresccd Did I get the wrong tool disk or ??? >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 -- 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.
