On 25.02.12 19:52, Jason White wrote:
Daniel Jitnah <djitnah@greenwareit.com.au> wrote:
IF it was my machine it would never have booted into win7 and it would be all Linux from day 0. You get the feeling its specifically configured with 4 partitions so as to make Linux install difficult.
There used to be a practice, as I recall, of implementing part of what's usually in the BIOS in software stored in one of the partitions of a laptop's hard drive. I'm hoping those days are long gone and that if you destroyed all of the supplied partitions on one of these machines and installed Linux, it would boot reliably.
Yes, there's much to be said for choosing a laptop known to be linux-friendly. For my first attempt at a laptop installation recently, I blew away everything on a new Thinkpad Edge E520, and installed Debian & LXDE. It just worked. No effort required. It boots like lightning, but is a bit slow when run off the battery. (Disk accesses take forever, so I figure it spins down.) Erik -- I have long felt that most computers today do not use electricity. They instead seem to be powered by the "pumping" motion of the mouse! - William Shotts, Jr. on http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.ph