Compaq Presario what? This sounds suspiciously like my Presario 730US laptop. If it's a 700 series, check out the website at the bottom of the page. It will help in the installation.
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 18:40, Steven Kopischke wrote: > My laptop is returning home tomorrow after a week in the shop for a bad > hard drive. My hard drive LIGHT is bad. Doesn't work at all. It is a 4-month old Compaq Presario with 256Mb RAM and a 20Gb > hard drive -- plenty of room for XP and Linux to coexist while I migrate to > Linux. That having been said, how do I begin? > > (I have the three Mandrake 8.2 ISO CD's I created from downloads and once > successfully installed on the above-mentioned laptop. However, the lesson I > learned is that I can't be too cavalier with carving up my laptop.) > > From what I have read on this list over the past couple of weeks, I am > considering the following approach: > > 1. Start with XP loaded and install Partition Magic. (I would partition the > hard drive before installing anything if I could, but I only have a > 'recovery' CD that drops an image onto the hard drive without regard for > how I may want to partition it.) > 2. Carve the hard drive into at least four volumes: > a: Windows XP operating system and applications (leave as NTFS > file system) > b: Linux operating system and applications (ext2 file system) > c: Linux swap > d: Data (FAT 32 file system so I can access from both OS') > 3. Install Mandrake 8.2 > 4. Install XP applications > 5. Restore data files > > My questions are these: > - Is my approach sound? Sounds good. But make a / and a /boot and a /home (3 linux partitions). Consider ext3. > - Will my drive partitioning work? Yep. > - How large should the drive volumes be to maximize utility? (I know I can > resize at will with Partition Magic, but I'd like to leave it stable for a > while.) Oh boy. WinXP - I have 6GB. Depends on how much space your apps take up. Swap - I'd say 300MB. / - 8GB /boot - 50MB /home - remainder Get other opinions. > - Is there anything I am neglecting to take into consideration? That Compaq Presario 700 series laptops DO NOT LIKE LINUX! Seriously, if this is a 700 series, I will help you in every way I know how, but read that Website. I posted it because there were some other Websites that were my saving grace. I combined everything that I needed to get this system to have a 2 hour battery life (YAY!!!) > > Many thanks in advance for your input. > > > Steven Kopischke > Green Bay, WI USA > > > > ---- > I can actually help someone now. I'm so happy. -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42!
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