From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SV8PJ-0006gm-2a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 21:38:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86D96E0CAC; Thu, 17 May 2012 21:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFC6E0824 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 21:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616EA1B405D for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 21:37:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.587 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.587 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.675, BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VXROxJLJCY5m for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 21:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B0111B4014 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 21:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SV8NZ-0001u5-L1 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 23:37:01 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 23:37:01 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 23:37:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: HP A8 laptop install Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 21:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <82475EBE-AC08-41D1-93DC-DB90ED79EE79@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201205150655.17199.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120402 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8) X-Archives-Salt: 0e319996-496b-494f-ab85-f0cb87799629 X-Archives-Hash: 6b265793738a94c7ea16c12147eb7492 Mick gmail.com> writes: > Unlike other bootloaders it does not interfere much with the original > installation and you can easily reverse the edits in the MSWindows boot menu > and re-expand the original partition before you return the laptop to Costco. OK thanks for all the input from everyone. If I have more questions, I'll post a new thread. The install is intermittent, at best, due to my workload ....... James