[ltp] pre-installation advice?

[Patrick Reilly]

Yes, I used parted on it while it was still type c (W95 FAT32(LBA)) - and it 
munged <g>. And, yes - the /dev/hda3 4GB recovery partition is at the end of 
the disk.

On Saturday 26 June 2004 03:53 pm, sltp@rhythm.cx wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:05:19AM +0000, Patrick Reilly wrote:
> > My T42p just got here a few days ago. I tried parted, and it munged the
> > partition - the recovery program put it back OK once I dropped the
> > partition.
>
> Were you doing parted on the windows partition before it was converted to
> NTFS on the initial boot? Or were you doing parted once it was NTFS?
>
> > I ended up just using QtParted (from Knoppix) to resize my /dev/hda1 down
> > to 15GB (still a type c W95 FAT32(LBA) partition), made a new /dev/hda2
> > (FAT32 38GB), and left in /dev/hda3 (type c, 4GB). Recovery Program asked
> > me if I wanted to wipe the partitions, or just install into "C:". I took
> > the latter, rebooted, and ended up with a 15GB WinXP partition and 38GB
> > that I could set up for linux - which I'm in the middle of doing.
>
> That /dev/hda3 type c 4GB is the recovery partition? That's at the end of
> the disk I assume (and shipped that way from factory)?
>
> BTW thanks for the numerous replies everyone.