[NTLUG:Discuss] hp dv9620us

[Wayne Walker]

First, as Chris said, back it all up!!!

Boot in knoppix (or any good  rescue CD)

dd if=/dev/sda | ssh ip_of.wonderful.linux.host 'gzip -1 > /big/partition/hp.sda.dd.backup.gz'

Wait a long while.

There should be NO error messages.

Partitioning.  As Chris said, 20 GB is a base install of Vista, you may
well need more.

Fedora 8 - I am a long time RH/Fedora fan (I've run nothing but RHL,
RHEL, CentOS, Fedora since RHL 5.0)  All my home systems are RHEL,
CentOS, Fedora.  EXCEPT my notebook now.  I've given up on getting
wireless (Broadcom 4311) and other things running under Fedora (6,7,8).

I Gave up and went to Ubuntu.  It works flawlessly as a desktop, joe
user system.  It drives me nuts because everything else I work on at
home and at work is RedHat based, but only Ubuntu got all the hardware
in my notebook working....

Wayne

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:23:10PM -0800, Dennis Kaptain wrote:
> I just bought a  hp dv9620us laptop. As of this moment it is still sealed in the box unopened.
> I'd like to re-partition the drive and contain vista to maybe 20GB and use the remaining 220GB for Fedora 8.
> Does anyone have any advise on how to:    1) best repartition the drive (I'm thinking gparted using a live disk) and or    2) things to look out for during installation and setup?
> Thanks in advance,Dennis Kaptain
> 
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