Windows 7 - Ubuntu 10.10 Dual Boot Partitioning Recommendation for HP Laptop OEM

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Published on 2010-12-30T02:01:25Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 3:01 UTC
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Hi Linux Community,
After been temporary impressed with the newb Windows 7 and after intensly using it
I find my self struggling with the ever slow and buggy windows OS once again.
It's Time to go with the Ubuntu/Linux way for a better and faster tomorrow.
Unfortunately in my country most Users/Business use Windows based Systems.
As a Computer technician i want to learn and use both Systems and possibly introduce New users to more affordable Linux Based Systems.

For now I want to create dual-boot or even triple boot layouts on my laptop machine

Here's the layout in use now:

* (C:) Windows 7 system partition NTFS - 284,89GB (Primary,Boot,Pagefile,Dump)
* HP_TOOLS system partition FAT32 - 99MB (Primary)
* (D:) RECOVERY partition NTFS - 12,90GB (Primary)
* SYSTEM partition NTFS 199MB (Primary)

Here's the layout I want to make.

* (C:) Windows 7 system partition NTFS - 60GB (Primary) (sda1)
* (D:) Windows data partition (user files) NTFS - 60GB(Extended or Primary)(sda2);wanna share with Linux
* Linux root Ext4 - 10GB (Primary)(sda3)
* Linux swap swap- RAM size, 3GB (sda4)
* Linux home Ext4- 164,9GB (Extended)(sda5)

Question 1: Is the layout that i want to make correct as the Primary and Extended Partition concerns ?
Question 2: Can I definitely get rid of SYSTEM Boot loader of windows?
Question 3: If I get rid of HP_TOOLS and RECOVERY partition will it be a problem?
Question 4: Based on my layout what is your suggestion for a Triple Boot layout for OSX or Puppy Linux?

Thank you in advance for your advises and suggestions.

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