My new lappy

[Tri-edge]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300289561260&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching

Specs

processor model
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62 
processor speed   2.1 GHz 
hard drive capacity   250 GB 
memory   3 GB 
memory type   DDR2 SDRAM 
maximum memory capacity   4 GB 
Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready)   yes 
included integrated drives   DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD+R Double Layer 
diagonal screen size   12.1 inches 
notebook computer weight   4.53 lb 
screen type   BrightView TFT active matrix LCD 
operating system   Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 
screen resolution   1280 x 800 
number of USB 2.0 ports   3 
audio hardware   Altec Lansing 
frontside bus speed   1600 MHz 
integrated speaker   yes 
integrated memory card reader   yes 
video hardware   nVidia GeForce Go 6150 
video memory   527MB shared 
number of S-video outputs   1 
model name   Pavilion tx2110us 
brand name   HP 
manufacturer   Hewlett-Packard 


What do you guys think?  I'm going to install mac on it and use the touch screen.

[PsychoticWolf]

So your gonna Put the mac OSX?..  I didn't Think Leopard Could run on the AMD architect.. The Only Real con on that Lappy is the nVidia Geforce Go 6150.

[Tri-edge]

So your gonna Put the mac OSX?..  I didn't Think Leopard Could run on the AMD architect.. The Only Real con on that Lappy is the nVidia Geforce Go 6150.

I know it's not the greatest laptop for games and stuff like that, but all I really need it for is web browsing and watching videos.  I got all the extras because I didn't want to use all my usb ports with adaptors later on.  This is perfect for me, when I get to collage I will be able to take notes on the screen and use bluetooth to listen to my music/videos wirelessly.  That's enough to make me happy*
I can't wait for it to get here.

*as long as I can install leopard on the thing. 

[noah03ark]

What are you doing with your old one?

[Tri-edge]

sell it

[noah03ark]

Interesting.... >_>




<_<


$$$$

[Tri-edge]

first thing I'm going to do is wipe it and do a fresh install.  Then install kaspersky for virus protection (kaspersky is the best virus protection that I have ever had)

[noah03ark]

Well good luck, fake osx isn't as good as
The real thing... Weird updated and support, etc

..I would have gotten a unibody... But W/e

While you've got good hardware, why not try the 7 beta?

[PspKicks316]

first thing I'm going to do is wipe it and do a fresh install.  Then install kaspersky for virus protection (kaspersky is the best virus protection that I have ever had)

Erm, no Kaspersky for OSx86. You're planning on dual booting?

[Tri-edge]

Erm, no Kaspersky for OSx86. You're planning on dual booting?

yes, I'm going to install kaspersky on vista and have osx86 on a different partion

Well good luck, fake osx isn't as good as
The real thing... Weird updated and support, etc

..I would have gotten a unibody... But W/e

While you've got good hardware, why not try the 7 beta?

Sure why not.  I'll do a quad boot with windows 7, vista, mac os x, and some form of linux.

[PspKicks316]

yes, I'm going to install kaspersky on vista and have osx86 on a different partion
Sure why not.  I'll do a quad boot with windows 7, vista, mac os x, and some form of linux.

You're going to have a hard time doing this. It's gonna be rough with only a 250gb too.

[SN!P3R]

my friend has Vista Black Edition, Open Suse 10.3, XP Pro, and Windows 95 (dont ask about that last one, idk WHY he even put it on there) on his 160 HDD, without no problems, using EasyBCD 1.7

[robin1989]

well it would just mean that each partition was 60gb if he wanted an even split unless he did it so that his favourite hade the most like

20gb
30gb
50gb
140gb

10gb goes to other stuff that goes on the disk when its formatted

[gamerdude767]

your lucky mate you got 250gb ive only got ........12gb hahaha    i have window xp home and a few adobe programs and its running great ha lol

[PspKicks316]

EasyBCD is for noobs. If you're going to dual/triple/quad boot, you do it properly.

[Tri-edge]

well it would just mean that each partition was 60gb if he wanted an even split unless he did it so that his favourite hade the most like

20gb
30gb
50gb
140gb

10gb goes to other stuff that goes on the disk when its formatted

Actually It's going to be like this:

70gb vista
10-20gb windows 7 (the beta going to end soon anyways)
150gb OSx86 (again I'm primarily going to be using mac)
10gb for whatever I want. I might install linux on it but I don't see the need to right now.

my friend has Vista Black Edition, Open Suse 10.3, XP Pro, and Windows 95 (dont ask about that last one, idk WHY he even put it on there) on his 160 HDD, without no problems, using EasyBCD 1.7

vista black edition?

EasyBCD is for noobs. If you're going to dual/triple/quad boot, you do it properly.

properly as in partion the hard drive manually and install each one?

[PspKicks316]

Vista Black Edition 09 is great, but do NOT USE IT.
The way it's set up, it cleans the RAM on boot. IF YOU TRY A SYSTEM RESTORE, IT WILL FAIL EVERY TIME.

Also, no matter what you need to manually partition the hdd, and installing is all manual anyway.
EasyBCD makes it easy for people, but it's faulty I've noticed. Use GRUB, it's far superior to the Windows bootloader and isn't crap.

[Tri-edge]

Ok I will try grub when I get it

[loganbyers07]

Vista Black Edition 09 is great, but do NOT USE IT.
The way it's set up, it cleans the RAM on boot. IF YOU TRY A SYSTEM RESTORE, IT WILL FAIL EVERY TIME.

Also, no matter what you need to manually partition the hdd, and installing is all manual anyway.
EasyBCD makes it easy for people, but it's faulty I've noticed. Use GRUB, it's far superior to the Windows bootloader and isn't crap.

I have loved my black edition. It must be 2008 edition

[PspKicks316]

Does weird text run across the screen when you boot?
I'm fairly sure all of the versions have the RAM cleaner on boot.

Whatever version was made last summer is what I had...probably 08. Not sure.

[noah03ark]

Actually It's going to be like this:

70gb vista
10-20gb windows 7 (the beta going to end soon anyways)
150gb OSx86 (again I'm primarily going to be using mac)
10gb for whatever I want. I might install linux on it but I don't see the need to right now.
vista black edition?
properly as in partion the hard drive manually and install each one?

i reccomend 20 for windows 7


i actually made space on my vista drive, and isstalled windows 7 on my hard drive for reals (for real testing) on a 10 GB drive...i had literally 800MB of space left; i could barely install the drivers as they take up space temporarily to install; needless to say, after spending 7 hours one night i simply rid of it the next day


more than 10plx

[Tri-edge]

Okay I got my laptop today and I finally got everything customized to my liking (I  vista).  I still researching for a way on how to install leopard and get everything working, but that comes latter.

 I still need some help though.  I need to know how to tri boot (with the option to quad boot in the future) vista, windows 7, and some form of linux.  I looked at grub but I couldn't find what version to download.  I never really done anything like a dual boot outside of a mac so I'm in new waters however I am NOT a noob (I just don't know what to do  ) I do know how to partion and burn iso images easily.

more than 10plx

k

[loganbyers07]

what I would do is put in my  vista disk and partition up your hard drive how you want it and then just re install vista (or the operating system you want). I think that it is the fastest method.

[Tri-edge]

he didn't give me the vista disk

[PspKicks316]

If you don't have the disk, then run a chkdisk, defrag the vista partition, and then shrink it. Work off of that afterwards.

[Tri-edge]

OK  partitioned my hard drive to 4 partitions and now I get keep on getting "press any keep to boot from cd or dvd" it won't let me boot back into vista.

partitions
1. vista
2 recovery (hp preinstalled)
3 windows 7 (tried to install but got an error)
4 linux (haven't installed yet)

I used easybcd to add the names for each partition and tried to install windows 7 but I kepted on getting that error.  Any help? 

[Tri-edge]

Bump can anybody please help me? 

[PspKicks316]

Format all of the partitions, and make new ones, only way this short guide will work.
Install W7, XP, Vista, ubuntu(preferably.)
When installing Ubuntu, check the box off that says install bootloader/grub(not sure what it says) and check off hd0,3 or hd0, not sure what it asks for(partition vs. hdd)

Done. Reboot and you have everything. If you don't, boot into ubuntu again, open terminal, and type

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

then uncomment the windows section(or add if it's not there) and add

title              Windows 7
root               (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader   +1

title              Windows XP
root               (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader   +1

title              Windows Vista
root               (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader   +1


You can of course change the order of them, including the obvious linux entry. Just make sure the root entries are what I put(as long as you made the partitions in order of the OS order I put).

Here's a copy of my menu.lst to show you:

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# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
#            grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
#            grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
#            and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 10

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
#hiddenmenu

# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue

## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line)  and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
#      password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret

#
# examples
#
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
#
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=e11767bc-f44a-442c-8c2d-73ed412927a7 ro

## Setup crashdump menu entries
## e.g. crashdump=1
# crashdump=0

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
##      lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
##      memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=e11767bc-f44a-442c-8c2d-73ed412927a7 ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=e11767bc-f44a-442c-8c2d-73ed412927a7 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows Vista Home Premium
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


title OS X
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1



[Tri-edge]

Ok thanks kicks.  I have to order a replacement recovery disk because I don't have one.  It's not much it's about $16 for a new one.  So once I get it I will reinstall everything and try again.  Here's my revised battle plan.

150gb vista
50gb osx86 (if I can install it and get it working)
20gb windows 7
30gb ubuntu

I don't know much about linux so I want to start now.  I'm going to install a dock for sure and if I can get my touch screen to work then it will become my new primary operating system.  Any suggestions for software to install on ubuntu?

[PspKicks316]

Not really, just get pidgin(well, it comes on it), uhm, Amarok is good for music. Most software you can get through the packaged utilities.

And in that case(your setup), you're going to have a hell of a lot more to do...


Okay, you MIGHT be able to get away with this.

Install OSx86, Windows 7, Vista, Ubuntu. Same as before, install grub to the hdd [which would be (hdo)].
Same as up there^

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

add an entry like so:



title       OS X
rootnoverify    (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader    +1


Save and test it. If it doesn't work, then boot into the VISTA install dvd and click repair system and select command prompt...

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
list partition
select partition 0
active
exit

That sets osx86 as the active partition(needed for the HFS+ volume to function properly).
Reboot and test it out(Since GRUB was installed to the MBR, you still have GRUB). Everything should boot properly.

Any other questions and I'll try to answer.

Okay, to install ubuntu first you're going to do this:

Ubuntu/W7/Vista

Install Ubuntu, then install W7, then install Vista. Make sure you(again) install GRUB to the hdd during the ubuntu install.

Once done, boot back into the ubuntu livecd and open up terminal and type in

sudo grub
root hd(0,0)
setup (hd0)
exit
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Edit and add in the W7 and Vista entries as posted a few posts above.

Reboot and enjoy.