candtalan
November 10th, 2010, 04:48 PM
I have just met with an acquaintance who has fairly recently purchased a new laptop. It is a widescreen Samsung with 3GB ram, 500 GB hard drive and Windows 7.
Retail price in UK around 400 UK pounds he said.
I tried an Ubuntu 10.04.1 live CD, out of interest, and it all seemed to work ok, video, audio, wireless.
However, I was interested to see that the hard drive is arranged as two small (restore) partitions and also two large partitions. The large ones are each more than 230 GB. One of these seems to have only about 15GB contents, which apparently includes some system stuff. The other only has 30GB contents anyway (light user....).
Thus, all four primary partitions are allocated.
There is still more than enough room for another one (or more) OS's..... and I trust that the Ubuntu installer would work itself into an extended partition existence (??).
Has anyone got experience of letting the recent installers run with this sort of environment?
I know that wise council suggests to avoid conspiracy theory when a simple foul up will explain things, but it does seem strange. Any comments anyone?
Retail price in UK around 400 UK pounds he said.
I tried an Ubuntu 10.04.1 live CD, out of interest, and it all seemed to work ok, video, audio, wireless.
However, I was interested to see that the hard drive is arranged as two small (restore) partitions and also two large partitions. The large ones are each more than 230 GB. One of these seems to have only about 15GB contents, which apparently includes some system stuff. The other only has 30GB contents anyway (light user....).
Thus, all four primary partitions are allocated.
There is still more than enough room for another one (or more) OS's..... and I trust that the Ubuntu installer would work itself into an extended partition existence (??).
Has anyone got experience of letting the recent installers run with this sort of environment?
I know that wise council suggests to avoid conspiracy theory when a simple foul up will explain things, but it does seem strange. Any comments anyone?