HP Pavilion LapTop, AMD Turion 64 cpu

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 10 April 2006 00:21, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>> I just bought this thing, and have spent the evening doing a little
>> housecleaning and exploring using the deafult XP Home edition OS
>> thats on it, and trying to get used to the 'mouse' tablet as a
>> navigator tool and have a few questions.  And please excuse me but
>> this is the first 'windoze' machine I've ever bought.
>
>I just did the same thing with a different HP Turion-based laptop
>(Compaq v5000z).  The steps I took were:
>
>1) boot the stock os and run the defragmention tool.
>2) download the "gpartd" iso and burn onto cd/dvd.

I got this far, downloading and burning the "System_Rescue_disk", which 
contains a progam called run_qtparted on it.
>3) boot the gpartd dvd and reduce the first partition size to
>   something much lower.
Booted ok, ran run_qtparted on a 1024x768 screen, and resized /dev/hda1 
down to about 25GB.  Unforch, regardless of the size I leave /dev/hda1, 
about 5 seconds after clicking OK, to (I assume) commit the changes to 
the drive, it comes back with this message in a box:

"Filesystem check failed!  Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches."

I have now gone around this bush till the ground is bare under my feet.

The prompt at the command line shell says root at sysresccd

Did I get the wrong tool disk or ???

>4) download and burn fc5 onto a dvd
>5) boot the fc5 dvd and have it use the "unused space" as the FC5
>   partition
>
>So far I haven't reclaimed the D partition, but if push comes to shove
>   I just tack it on to the end of the linux partition.
>
>> If I wanted to put linux on this, should I use the i386 dvd of FC5 I
>> already have, or go get the AMD64 version?
>
>Personally I got an amd64 to do 64-bit address space things with.
>Running it in 32-bit mode seemed really wasteful.
>
>> Thats enough questions for one message I think, and many thanks to
>> those who attempt to help a windows newbie get back to his favorite
>> OS. :-)
>
>I know very little about ms-windows. The only thing I found it useful
>for was to test the wireless card.  The broadcom-based card in my
>machine (bcm4318) still doesn't show up under FC5 but works fine on
>the stock os.
>
>-wolfgang
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