[GRLUG] partitioning help -- update

[Marissa Hogue]

On 02/24/2011 06:19 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:06:02PM -0500, Topher wrote:
>> Ok, I left the recovery partition after my linux partitions and
>> everything seems to have worked swimmingly.
>>
>> I haven't actually tried pressing f12 to boot the recovery
>> partition, but grub sees it, and I can choose it from the grub list
>> and it loads fine.  I don't know if it WORKS, but I would imagine it
>> would.
> 
> My laptop came with Vista.  I repartioned the primary Windows partition
> and installed Debian.  I tried the recovery partition once.  Though it
> would boot (via grub) it would bail everytime because it (apparently)
> didn't find the appropriate partitions it was expecting.  This may
> simply be my ignorant speculation.  Then again, who cares?  I'll never
> need to install Vista.
> 
>> I've already decided I don't want LMDE, I'm going to put Arch on it.  :)
> 
> Why?

Because Arch is one magnificent beast, that's why!

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