[ale] GParted & unallocated space
Richard Faulkner
rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Mon Sep 27 15:54:05 EDT 2010
I have to say that this thread has been the most enlightening especially
from a support standpoint. That's one thing I love about playing in
this sandbox!
Please let us know how it goes for the installation will ya Jim? I'm
sure all will go well in the end! What's most interesting is that HP
seems to have made the decision for you that you'll not be installing an
OS in tandem. That (in some ways) says certain things about HP (not
good IMHO) and especially forces the typical end-user into a Windows
only mode of thinking even more.
Great call on suggesting to look at the number of primary partitions
Tim! I had already thought about it but assumed this was a known factor
already thus said nothing about it...again...very enlightening from a
support standpoint! ---R
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:22:55 -0400
It came with windows. why would anyone want anything different? us
corporate types took your money and sold you what we wanted to you to
buy. it worked just fine. if it doesn't then you need to spend more
money with us to make it even better.
</snark>
In general, it's a good idea to plan on blowing away the "restore"
partition for any dual-boot setup. It can't be used to "restore
functionality" to the machine anyway. Make a restore disk set instead so
you have original winders garbage and the extra bloatware it shipped
with parked elsewhere. Then _you_ have control of the drive structure..
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
Idiots! That's a bit like selling a car with non-reversible lug
nuts.
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 07:17 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> That's my problem. HP, in its wisdom, decided that the disk
needed
> four primary partitions to do all of the crap they find
necessary.
> Aside from the main partition, I have Tools, System and
Recovery. I'm
> about ready to create a recovery disk and just kill the
Recovery
> partition.
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Tim Watts
<tim at cliftonfarm.org>
> wrote:
> How many primary partitions are currently on the disk?
You can
> only have
> 4 primary partitions on a disk.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 21:03 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> > I can't create a partition in that space either.
Fedora says
> there is
> > no space (always shows it as 0 megabytes). Ubuntu
also
> refuses to
> > allow me to do anything with the space, flagging it
as
> "unusable".
> > I've been installing Linux off and on for fifteen
years.
> This is just
> > something I haven't encountered before.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Brian Pitts
> <brian at polibyte.com>
> > wrote:
> > On 09/25/2010 09:00 PM, Jim Philips wrote:
> > > Let me get this straight: Are you saying
Ubuntu
> installed to
> > unallocated
> > > space without formatting? I couldn't
install,
> because
> > GParted refused to
> > > format that space.
> >
> >
> > Again, you can't format unallocated space.
You have
> to create
> > a
> > partition, then format the partition. Can
you create
> a new
> > partition? If
> > not, how many partitions are there already?
> >
> > --
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> > Brian Pitts
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