HP Laptop (Defeat acknowledged)

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 04:30:55 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> Stew Schneider wrote:
> > 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...
>
> 21GB!  It's there until I need the space, then it's history :-)  I haven't
> used it yet...

I keep Virus Vista on my Dell just in case I have to call for support.  I know 
I'm going to get flack when I mention Linux on a Laptop that 
wasn't "sanctioned" by Dell for Linux.  Which begs the question:  Is it just 
me or are the Dell Linux machines VERY outdated hardware wise?



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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!