Sfink/Laptop Setup
I was issued a ThinkPad T510 laptop, apparently to stun any marauding elephants that might endanger my safety. It's heavy.
OS Installation
It came preinstalled with Windows 7. Partitions were:
- (unallocated): Looks like there's some hidden stuff at the beginning
- sda1: looks like the boot partition
- sda2: main Windows partition
- sda3: 10GB Lenovo restore partition
I installed Fedora 13 on it.
- Needed to alter boot command line to pass intel_iommu=off or it would spew errors constantly and fail to install.
- I resized the main Windows partition, and then backed up the restore partition onto it and blew that restore partition away. (I needed a partition for LVM + a boot partition.)
- I made a 500MB boot partition and the rest an extended partition with an LVM partition inside it.
- Then I made logical volumes for / and /home and swap. Good enough.
Packages
- zsh
- emacs
- mercurial
- gpointing-device-settings (supposedly allows full configuration of touchpad, but I still can't get taps to register as clicks)
- a whole bunch of stuff for building Mozilla