Re: [SLUG] Notebook officially dead

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2010 - 15:42:36 EDT


On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Pete Theisen wrote:

> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> Dell's got Ubuntu on laptops. My wife has one.
>
> They don't seem to have it on refurbs, though. Oh, well, I know how to
> install linux, and how to use qparted to get rid of the old stuff, not to say
> the w-word.

Don't forget to nuke the restore partition too. IIRC the partition table on
my Thinkpad was messed up courtesy of IBM, so a new partition table may be
necessary.

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