Installing Windows Linux on new T105

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 03 March 2008 04:40:30 pm Davide Ferrari wrote:
> El Monday 03 March 2008 17:25:44 Art Alexion escribió:
> > I wouldn't do that.  The partition is small (~35 MB).  Useful for
> > testing hardware failure, especially when calling for warranty service.
> > Your users will waste more than that on a few MP3s, a bloated graphic or
> > slide show.
>
> But it changes the way you enumerate partitions on your disk, and anyway it
> doesn't do anything you can't do by booting wth a Dell Diagnostics CD (or
> ISO, or USB, or whatever).
>
> My 2 cents... it's just a matter of taste I believe.

That is reassuring, as I managed to delete this partition,
by following the instructions in the Quick Start Guide.

I only had a Windows XP Pro disk,
which it would not accept.
(It wanted a Windows Server disk.)
As far as I could see it was impossible to escape at this point,
and when I re-booted the computer the first partition
had lost most of its contents.

So I just deleted everything, and installed Windows on the first partition
(30GB), with a 100MB boot partition next, a 30GB Fedora Linux partition,
and the rest in an extended partition not yet allocated.