[nycbug-talk] Dual boot IBM thinkpad T40?

[Dan Langille]

On 26 Jul 2005 at 16:13, Freeman, Joshua wrote:

> Marc,
> 
> I can see in the Partition Magic window here:
> 
> There's IBM_PRELOAD which is NTFS and 33.5MB of which 8MB is used
> 
> and
> 
> IBM_SERVICE which is FAT and 4.7MB 4.2 of which is used...
> 
> 
> So.. what are you saying?  Blowing everything away first?... I did get the recovery disks in the post today... 
> 
> Just not sure I'm getting what you're recommending.
> 
> J.
> 
> Joshua S. Freeman
> Director, Information Technology, NYBG
> v: 718 817 8937 m: 347 392 2560
> jfreeman at nybg dot org
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org on behalf of Marc Spitzer
> Sent: Tue 7/26/2005 4:06 PM
> To: Freeman, Joshua
> Cc: NYCBUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Dual boot IBM thinkpad T40?
>  
> One thing to be aware of, the IBM recovery disks will eat your hard
> drive.  I mean it has a pre programmed partition scheme that it uses,
> recovery and everything else is c:\ so all your stuff will go away.

Here's what I did:

  http://www.freebsddiary.org/ibm-thinkpad-t41.php

I used  BootIt Next Generation from TeraByte Unlimited (free I think) 
to shrink the main partition.
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