From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([74.53.93.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hcl1F-0006Ch-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:22:33 -0400 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3EGMWut020106 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:22:32 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l3EGMWYi020105 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:22:32 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:22:32 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues Message-ID: <20070414162232.GH26256@rednote.net> References: <461EFF2E.6000906@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <461EFF2E.6000906@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6spk Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:22:33 -0000 You can expect any laptop you buy with some OS already installed will have consumed most, if not all the available hd. Either you resize with some tool, or delete partitions and reconfigure. No surprise there. I would strongly suggest you not blithely install Linux on a single partition. At the very least, I strongly suggest a separate partition for /home. Please consider the guidance re such decisioning provided in our installation HOWTO: http://SpeakupModified.Org/HOWTO_INSTALL.html#diskdruid Beth Hatch writes: > Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues > Hi Sean and all, > > That's a really good question! Yes, Fedora did notice my > Windows partition. The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the > partitions, according > to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break the existing > partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to recognize what > we had done. > The computer was broken into one 30 gigabyte partition and another 90 > GB partition. Since there wasn't enough room on the smaller partition, > we had > to use the bigger one in order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and > Windows on the other 45 GB partion we then made. this meant that we had > to temporarily > remove Windows to build the new partitions.