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This is an old revision of InstallLaptopHpProBook6460b made by BenoitAudouard on 2011-06-22 22:39:35.
Installing Mageia 1 on laptop ProBook 6460b
I used a live Gnome on an USB key (1 GB dedicated to this kind of installation).When partitionning too many primary partitions, which one to delete ? HP_RECOVERY ? HP_TOOLS ?
http://h30478.www3.hp.com/t5/Logiciels-et-syst%C3%A8mes-d/Recr%C3%A9er-HP-RECOVERY-et-HP-TOOLS/td-p/67027/page/2
http://www.nginformatique.fr/index.php/Windows7/Creer-une-partition-recovery.html
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-systems-and/Too-Many-Primary-Partitions-to-install-Linux-Help/td-p/197291
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Hp-Tools-Partion/td-p/228360
Well, my choice has been to remove the partition named HP_TOOLS in order to have the possibility to create a new primary partition for Linux /
I copied the content via cp -R /media/hp_tools/ /media/windows and just in case with dd if=/dev/sdc of=image_of_partition_sda4.iso
See below for initial partitions, I could create a new partition to install Linux, I'll have to check if I can create a secondary partition for /data/ (as ext4, as it is suficiently stable now in 2011).
Of course, when rebooting W7pro, you'll have a chkdsk in text (horrible) mode, just let it finish to realize that its partition has been shrinked (well, to 40 GB o_O yep that makes a bit too much for only notepad as a useful application...).
Initial diagnostics
Everything that I use is recognized: video card (3D too, even though I usually ), wifi (even with WPA/PSK using AES), ethernet, suspend, battery, keyboard, touchpad, webcam (720p)Things I did not check: firewire, sdcard reader, internal modem (yep 56k o_O), external sata, VGA output
List of rpm installed by default (after initial tweaking) 1303 rpm (including initial updates + change of kernel from desktop586 to kernel-desktop-latest)
Theoretical battery life: 5 hours, effective at first: maybe around 4h30?
ToDo and identify things to improve
- whenever in Gnome, I change the default size of fonts from 10 to 8 (7 for title bar), perhaps the resolution is not correct? (to be checked)
- I miss metisse package (a specific WM), I'll have to package gcstar, smolts-gui (and dependancies), hwreport
- I recently stumbled upon a thread about backporting: there was a misunderstanding that it may go to updates or to backport, "backporting" being the action of importing first in cauldron then compile for previous versions (with appropriate adaptations if needed)
- check whether virtualization of w7pro 64 bits provided is possible in VirtualBox (depending on CPU ? Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz)
- check how to use all 4 GB even with a 32 bits kernel, I thought PAE permitted it... 2968 MB seen o_O
Just in case: initial partitions
The choice has been to delete HP_TOOLS (after saving it with cp + dd if=/dev/sdc of=image_of_partition_sda4.iso)Périphérique : sda3 Nom du volume : HP_RECOVERY UUID : 72DE147ADE143935 Lettre de lecteur DOS supposée : E Type : NTFS-3G (0x7) Début : secteur 581675008 Taille : 15Gio (5%), 32974848 secteurs Cylindre 36207 à 38260 Périphérique : sda4 Nom du volume : HP_TOOLS UUID : 9AC2-C9DE Lettre de lecteur DOS supposée : F Type : W95 FAT32 (LBA) (0xc) Début : secteur 614649856 Taille : 4.9Gio (1%), 10475520 secteurs Cylindre 38260 à 38912 Périphérique : sda1 Nom du volume : SYSTEM UUID : 144C17534C172F4C Lettre de lecteur DOS supposée : C Type : NTFS-3G (0x7) Début : secteur 2048 Taille : 300Mio (0%), 614400 secteurs Cylindre 0 à 38 Partition d'amorçage par défaut (pour DOS/Windows, pas pour LILO)