Thinkpad Saga Continues

[Beth Hatch]

i Janina,

Yes, I will be taking into consideration your guidelines posted in the 
how-to when I reinstall Linux, especially with the partitions as you 
suggested.  I hope the speakup issue gets fixed as well, glad I'm not 
the only one experiencing weird issues with the Dectalk Express.

Take care and thanks again,

Beth

Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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. 
>>     
>
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