partition table for latitude

rohr · 04-19-2005, 10:51 AM

Hello,
this post regards especially owners of Dell Latitude laptops:
i'd like to ask you if someone could please post his/her complete partition table, especially if he/she hasn't removed DellUtility partition and XP on HD, since i am going to make a similar partition for my hard disk.

I am looking for partition tables for laptop with dual boot XP/Linux, especially if
using GRUB.

Thank you in advance

drumz · 04-23-2005, 09:09 PM

I have a Latitude D800 with a 40GB hard drive. I removed the utility partition becuase I felt that I didn't need it and that I would always have the Dell CD with me, in case I did need it. I dual boot GNU/Linux and XP (although I haven't been in XP for a few days...) Anyway, here's my partition table:

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         380     3052318+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2             381        4864    36017730    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5             381        1523     9181116   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            1524        1588      522081   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7            1589        4864    26314438+   b  W95 FAT32

Here are my partitions in GB:
NTFS - 2.9
ext3 - 8.5
swap - 0.5
vfat - 25.1

The NTFS holds everything for windows except Program Files and Documents and Settings, which are located on the vfat partition.

Here's what I did to get from XP only to XP + Linux:
1. Backup important stuff from windows.
2. Restart computer with XP install disk and make partitions
3. Install XP on hda1
4. Using Junction Link Magic, I pointed C:\Program Files to G:\Program Files and C:\Documents and Settings to G:\Documents and Settings. This way I can read and write to these locations under both OS's.
5. Install GNU/Linux.

Originally I installed LILO (I notice you'll be using grub) on the root partition (hda5). Later I decided to go ahead and put LILO on the MBR.