monjebleu
June 7th, 2011, 08:00 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, gastropods and former French emperors, autocratic anthropomorphic simians and genetically engineered sentient root vegetables, I come to you today with a question on setting up a dually booted laptop. The model is the hp dm1z it currently has a copy of Windows 7 and I would like to partition the hard drive so that I may use Ubuntu 11.04 as my main OS. However, I have read that there can be only one Highlan -- err, only 4 partitions on my hard drive, which there already are. These are, according to gparted: sda1-"boot", sda2-main hard drive, sda3-"Recovery", and sda4-"HP Tools" or something like that. I am planning on deleting the HP tools drive, as I have learned elsewhere that it is not absolutely essential and also more recoverable that the recovery drive (seeing as I have no way of making external recovery media currently). Then I would simply shrink sda2 and create a new partition for ubuntu in the empty space. I have been trying to use this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1744710) as a guide but it is a tad bit confusing and I just wanted some counsel on my planned course of action. Also, what is the deal on a swap partition? Many thanks.