Core 2 on Dell Lattitude

[Charles Heselton]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:41:58 -0400, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 18:21, Charles Heselton wrote:
> > Could be.  The partitions are set up as 1 default 9GB partition (for
> > Windows) and 1 8GB ext2 partition (1GB swap).  When I installed,
> > Windows was already there and I just installed to the blank partition.
> >  Setup the slices with DiskDruid in the install procedure.
> >
> > Guess I'll try a re-install and see if it makes any difference.
> 
> 
> Should you not also have a /boot partition?  Like I said I have not used
> or setup a dual boot system but I would expect you would have the
> following:
> 
> Windows partition
> /boot partition
> /   root partition (I am surprised you are using ext2 but not an issue)
> and swap partition.
> 
> If I remember correctly I think you can have 4 primary partitions with
> no problems.  So that should be fine.  You won't need to setup an
> extended partition table.
> 
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You could be on top of it.  I'm starting the re-install right now. 
And this time I did the "automatic partitioning", which created the
/boot, as well as an extended partition.  We'll see how it comes out.

Thans for the tip.

-- 
Charlie Heselton
Network Security Engineer