New HP Laptop with Recovery partition

[Collins Richey]

On 1/13/07, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 13 January 2007 05:04, Terence wrote:
> > FWIW my son has just bought a Pavilion (sounds like the same model
> > from the spec), and in the docs it said that the recovery partition
> > can be removed once the recovery DVDs have been burned (AND checked!).
> > We burned the discs, and I used a GParted cd to check the hard drive
> > and partitions.
> >
> > I then removed the recovery partition and re-partitioned to give a
> > dual boot capability with OpenSUSE 10.2.
> >
> > My son has not yet had to use the recovery DVDs, but a quick and
> > incomplete check showed them to boot OK.
>
> Thanks Terence.  I appreciate the comment.
>
> Anyway, Kubuntu installed beautifully, I got 4-5 hours on the battery last
> night (including the CD-install) and Hibernate works flawlessly (at least the
> couple times I've done it.

Naughty, naughty. OpenSUSE and Kubuntu in the same thread. The "RH ===
Linux" crowd will not be amused.

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Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.