[GRLUG] partitioning help -- update

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:22:53PM -0500, Marissa Hogue wrote:
> 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!

What did you not like about LMDE?
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