[NTLUG:Discuss] Does Windows from a partitioning focus control Linux compatibility issues

Allen chef11994 at aol.com
Fri Jul 29 18:57:03 CDT 2011


Ralph I truly appreciate that very informative reply and while attempt to digest it let me send you the results of lspci
in hopes that with this info you might add some other needed info.
The one thing I can handle well is gparted and I do have recovery disks should I want to get back to out of the box staging.
My druthers is a latest addition of Suse, stay with Ubuntu and then just kind of play around and explore. Its my hobby so to speak.
Could you as well comment why in installing Suse I must do it with acpi=off.
Again thank you
Allen
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 9602
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
allen at allen-laptop:~$ 


 

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Green <sfreader at sbcglobal.net>
To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Does Windows from a partitioning focus control Linux compatibility issues


Allen,

  The wireless problem might require you to connect briefly with a wired

connection in order to get the wireless setup.  Linux can't ship some of

the wireless drivers because the wireless driver licenses do not allow

it.  In other cases, the wireless drivers are not shipped because they

are really wrapped Windows drivers.  Picky people like me don't want

those drivers.  You did not say what kind of wireless nic your Toshiba

has.  You can run the lspci command to find out.  If it is a wireless

nic that is poorly supported in Linux, it is fairly cheap to get a

better one.  Used wireless nic on eBay are often under $20 shipped.  You

do need to get one with the same bus as provided by your Laptop.  It

would probably be Mini-PCI or mini-PCIe.



 I think deleting that hidden partition causes Windows to not work

right, but that is 2nd hand information, and maybe somebody else will

comment.  You may not have even asked this, but I was not sure.



 If you remove Windows and start from scratch, you should be able to

easily double or triple boot.  Linux distros tend to cooperate fairly

well.  Remember that you can share the swap partition among them, since

only one at a time will access it.  There can be up to 7 partitions in

the classic partition setup, so you could have up to 6 Linux systems to

boot from.  And, if you want to experiment with the GPT, there is a much

larger limit.

Good luck,

Ralph



On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 14:34 -0400, Allen wrote:

>  f experiencing the pleasure of many distributions.

> With the Toshiba so far I have only been able to install 10.04 in a dual boot 

process wirelessly.

> My question is would this incompatibility change if I removed Win 7 as an OS 

along with removing the hidden partition identified as recovery

> and then proceeded to re-partition extended and attempt to load Suse and any 

other distros I choose







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