Thinkpad Saga Continues

[Janina Sajka]

You can expect any laptop you buy with some OS already installed will
have consumed most, if not all the available hd. Either you resize with
some tool, or delete partitions and reconfigure. No surprise there.

I would strongly suggest you not blithely install Linux on a single
partition. At the very least, I strongly suggest a separate partition
for /home.  Please consider the guidance re such decisioning provided in
our installation HOWTO:

http://SpeakupModified.Org/HOWTO_INSTALL.html#diskdruid


Beth Hatch writes:
> Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues
> Hi Sean and all,
> 
> That's a really good question!<smile>  Yes, Fedora did notice my 
> Windows  partition.  The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the  
> partitions, according
> to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break  the existing 
> partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to  recognize what 
> we had done.
> The computer was broken into one 30  gigabyte partition and another 90 
> GB partition.  Since there wasn't  enough room on the smaller partition, 
> we had
> to use the bigger one in  order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and 
> Windows on the other 45 GB  partion we then made. this meant that we had 
> to temporarily
> remove  Windows to build the new partitions.