[GRLUG] partitioning help

[Bob Kline]

A side point, did you make a
windoz backup?

Just asking. You're permitted one...

    -- Bob


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:

> Ok, you know that HP box I said I decided not to get?  I got it anyway.
>
> It came with Win7 Home Premium on it.  I almost always dual boot my
> machines, and if they come with windows I like to leave the original install
> on it.  If nothing else then when it break I can have the repair guy see
> what he expects.
>
> I'm starting to put LMDE on it, and I'm a bit stumped on the partitioning.
>
> It's a 1T drive, and it comes with three partitions already on it.  In
> gparted it says the first is SYSTEM, and 100MiB.  The second is OS and
> 918.17 GiB, and the third is HP_RECOVERY, 13.25GiB.
>
> So I resized thhe big one down to 250G, leaving the rest to be chopped up
> for Linux.
>
> Except you can't have more than 4 primary partitions.  AND gparted has
> "logical" greyed out as a partition type.
>
> What to do?  Is the lack of a logical option LMDE's fault?  If I booted
> from that gparted live distro would it let me do it?  Do I need to bite the
> bullet and wipe out the HP_RECOVERY partition?
>
> Save me GRLUG....kenobe.... you're my only hope!
>
> Topher
>
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