On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:36 -0400, David L. Johnson wrote: > Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > > Many notebooks and netbooks have hidden partitions created by the > original installation, which contain software for things like special > hardware controllers, basic restoration of factory configurations, and > the like. When you re-partitioned, you probably noticed more partitions > than you expected. Looks like they stuck their little package in an > extended partition.
Might be, although when I booted into Windows 7 to perform a BIOS update (I read that's a good idea before installing squeeze), I saw two partitions, C: (where Windows was installed), and an empty partition D:. fdisk didn't seem to think there was anything special with the partitions. It saw sda1 and sda5 (living in the extended partition sda2), both NTFS, not hidden or anything. When I tell the installer I want to use the entire disk for Debian, then it should discard anything in the partition table, hidden or not. Installation failing in such a situation is a bug, IMHO. I'm not sure if this works any better if you want to reduce the Windows partition, and install Debian in parallel (i.e. dual-boot). > > Bad news is that you blew away whatever software the manufacturer wanted > there, but that doesn't matter unless you wanted to keep the Windows > that the thing probably came with. It probably doesn't matter much even > if you do want to keep Windows. Well, it seems that ExpressGate is missing now (it started when pressing the left power button). That's a quick-starting Linux environment for browsing or so... I didn't like it, to be honest, but other people might. I'd like to see the Moblin improvements in the boot time coming to Debian, though. :) Best regards, Laurențiu _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
