HP Pavillion dm1-1020ez
Well, I've done it again. Bought another sub-notebook. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium. Sigh. Grrrr.
When I went to install Linux, I found that HP and Microsoft have now found a way to use all four available diskpartitions - one for the Windows bootloader (don't ask me why, I don't understand), one for Windows 7, one for Recovery, and one for HP Tools. So the first thing I had to do was make a set of recovery DVDs, so I could delete the Recovery partition and create an Extended Partition to hold the Linux distributions. That took well over an hour, to create three DVDs. Once that was done, I was ready to install Linux...
The next thing I learned is that this thing is very cranky about booting from CD or USB disks. I still haven't figured it out, but sometimes it starts to boot and then just stops cold. Once I get a LiveCD to boot, the installation is quick and easy. So far I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 (standard and UNR), openSuSE 11.2, Mandriva One 2010.0 and Linux Mint 8.
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