HP Laptop (Defeat acknowledged)

[Stew Schneider]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> It wasn't a problem.  I did this on an HP Pavilion 6000.  Delete Vista
> partition, create small partition with an Ubuntu LiveCD, boot from the HP
> recovery partition to recreate Vista (then delete, again, all the garbage
> that HP adds - the Microsoft garbage is bad enough, but to have almost a
> gigabyte taken up with HP games [that cost $ to play] is infuriating). 
> Then install Kubuntu into the free space.
"Boot from the HP recovery partition" = "Boot from the HP recovery DVD"?

What size partition did you create for VISTA? It seems to require an 
awful chunk...something like three solar masses...

stew