Core 2 on Dell Lattitude
Charles Heselton
charles.heselton at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 08:10:42 UTC 2004
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:45:55 -0700, Charles Heselton
<charles.heselton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Scot L. Harris
> > webid at cfl.rr.com
> >
> > Hitchcock's Staple Principle:
> > The stapler runs out of staples only while you are trying to
> > staple something.
> >
> >
> >
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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
>
FYI....
The re-install (with the addition of the /boot slice) worked. I'm now
running FC2 on my Dell. Thanks for the tips Scott.
--
Charlie Heselton
Network Security Engineer
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