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I just bought a dell laptop with a single large (500GB) disk. |
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I find getting dell service is easier if I have windows installed |
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so I reinstalled windows from its original configuration of claiming all |
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the space to "just" 30GB. |
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However this uses three partitions |
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1. A dell partition (I believe with diagnostics) |
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2. The main windows 7 partition (c:) |
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3. A recovery partition (made by windows) |
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I imagine I could arrange to have the recovery partition an extended |
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partition, but I am a windows novice so prefer to leave all of |
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windows as it was (except for having vastly reducing the size of #2). |
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I am now ready to install linux (and grub). |
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Can I have all of linux on extended partitions? Something like |
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4. Extended |
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5. linux / (a logical partition inside the extended partition) |
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6. linux swap (another logical partition) |
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7. linux lvm2 partition (another logical partition) |
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8. linux small vfat partition (logical) |
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I am mainly concerned about #5. Googling reveals that you can boot |
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from a logical partition but the authors seem to recommend against |
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it (without saying why in detail). |
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Finally, can I install grub on the mbr *after* having installed windows 7? |
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With old windows systems this was bad; with vista it worked. |
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thanks, |
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allan |