At 00:48:07 on Friday Friday 02 October 2009, Felix Miata
On 2009/10/02 00:15 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
....[laptop] arrived with Ubuntu installed....
When the machine arrived, there there was besides Ubuntu (in a single primary partition), also a primary partition containing Dell utilities. The latter was at the beginning of the HD.
It's a shame you can't remember the info probably most in this thread would like to know. You didn't by any chance save a dfsee.log from your first session, did you?
If we want to know the names of the files that were in the Dell Utilities partition, that is probably no problem. The machine came with a CD of Ell utilities, and I can look. I won't do that now (it's going on 0200 and I ought to get to bed). I'll have a look sometime tomorow; tune in in the PM yourtime.
You say primary, but that's of little import. The bigger question is what types those two partitions were. Installing Linux to a single partition with no separate partition even for swap is unusual.
No swap is unusual. I would not be able to swear that there was no swap partition. I didn't linger very long on the preloaded content of the disk.
More expected of a mere two primary partition Linux system of which one is a vendor utility partition is that the other of them would be either a type 05h, or, of greater interest, either a type EEh (GPT, containing other partitions) or a type 8E (Linux LVM, containing other partitions). DFSee won't yet show the existence of (or anything else about) partitions contained within EEh or 8Eh partitions.
Felix, I had planned anyway to wipe the disk clean altogether, per your suggestion. "Altogether" so I am sure I've got everything that ought to go. Then I'll do a new installation and report. I may not do this over the weekend, but only Sunday (which is a weekday here), because I want to first disable the Abominable Touch Pad, which is a royal pain (erratic in operation and placed optimally for inadvertant cursor movement). The word on the Web is that the only way to do this on this machine is to disconnect it physically. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org