On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:11:19 +0100, MPCEE wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Arnt: > > We now seem to be getting in to very deep technical stuff, especially > for me! Partitioning disks!!! The following will give you the > breakdown of the PC, insofar as one hard disk known as "C" and "D" > Drives. > > Local Disk "C" - File System is NTFS and is called HP Pavilion (C) > (Pavilion is the model that HP has called this PC). Used Space: 11.4 > GB Free Space: 167 GB. ..ok, you don't need more than 67G for everything when you do go completely bananas installing everything, so the above ntfs can be shrunk to say 100GB and still remain 11.4% full. > Local Disk "D" - File system is FAT32 and is called HP Recovery (D) > (HP is Hewlett Packard). Used Space: 3.74 GB. Free Space: 3.21 GB. ..leave it alone. > I only know the terms NTFS and FAT32 in passing, but it seems that you > would prefer FAT32 than NTFS. Certainly Local Disk "C" has the space > to use, but there must be a reason why they call "D" 'Recovery' and > it's smaller in capacity of the two! ..you want GNU/Linux on ext3. Period. > Anyway, we still have to find the "good" boot method before anything > else. ..like I said: > > put Grub in the master boot record, so it boots both > > os'es with a nice boot menu. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
