hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:15:58PM -0700, lakestevensdental wrote: > >> * W7 requires 4 partitions, leaving only 1 partition for a dual boot >> to Ubuntu or other OS. Ubuntu currently recommends an separate >> partition for swap memory, but W7 isn't going to allow it. >> > > Has the partitioning system changed? I thought that we were limited to > four primary partitions, leaving *no* partitions free for dual boot. Or > else one of them could be the extended partition, which can contain > *lots* of secondary partitions. > Possibly it's changed with 1T hds taking the market? When I installed Ubuntu after W7, there were 4 W7 partitions and one free for Ubuntu. I didn't really pay attention to whether the W7s were all primary partitions or not. I do know there were no additional primary partitions left after installing Ubuntu, cutting a chunk out of the largest W7 partition, at least according to the Ubuntu partitioner. I figured with 4Gs of RAM, the need for a swap partition for Ubuntu was minimized, at least for now. I'm going to overwrite W7 in a couple days, which should free up a couple partitions. If I've got a spare partition, I suppose I could then go back and tweak Ubuntu to add a swap partition. Or reinstall it from scratch. Having only installed Ubuntu a couple weeks ago, I haven't done much with Ubuntu other than browse around a bit and check if it works with all of the devices I've attached to check against W7 beta's poor ability to recognize drivers and stuff. Ubuntu 8.1 did just fine finding everything -- no BS M$ W& driver $ignature enforcement. FYI, on another thread drift -- when I run W7s performance checker, the slowest part of the two new boxes I installed are the hard drives. One came out as a 5.5, the other as a 3.0. Both SATAs supposedly have similar specs. It's possible the problem could be related to W7 SATA driver BS, since I wasn't able to load the Shuttle Vista MB drivers from the Shuttle MB CD. Which also prevented me from accessing the LAN port to look for updates. Fed up with W7 on my brand new Shuttle, I overwrote W7 with XPPro with PC_BSD installed as intermediate step to check device operations in case MS fooled around with me in XPPro. BSD's partition manager also allowed me to wipe out the four W7 partitions. Both XPPro and BSD installed and worked fine. S _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
