Whoooo New Laptop!

roguetech · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: Whoooo New Laptop!

Hey Guys,
Well i finally got my new laptop, a Hp dv5000z

Specs:
AMD Sempron +3300 (2.0 ghz)
512 mb ram
60gb Harddrive
DVD-+RW/R Dual layer Read Drive
Ati Radeon Xpress 200m 128 mb

Well i do have one question as this is the first laptop I have ever owned... I seme to have a recovery Hard drive with it whic can restore a windows install (note i find the windows install slow and crawls... yet a gentoo livecd works completly fine.) Anywho i am curious as to removing the partition for recovery as I do not intend to use windows... The reason I ask this is how will it affect the HP Splash screen with System Recovery when hitting the F10 or (whatever the number is Button) Hoping that button may disappear, anyway any help on this would be great cause I would like to have all access to my 60gb hardrive (if you plan on saying about getting a bigger harddrive i came to the conclusion that i only need a 60gb hardrive (last time I had Gentoo I only used 22gb on a 40gb harddrive which I had for a year..)) Anyway Any input on this would be great! Thanks

Roguetech

Monkeh · Veteran Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 1656 Location: England

Very similar to mine (I have a 3000+ and an SiS GPU). You'll find it flies under Gentoo (will kick a 3GHz P4's butt).

I'm not sure about the recovery screen, but you should be able to just turn it off in the BIOS. I can on my Acer (no recovery partition though, which is rare and likeable).

roguetech · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject:

Thanks I will get on that now!

(ugh i uninstalled all the junk that came with HP and it still slow.... but not as bad... but gentoo is faster still lol)

Roguetech