[nycbug-talk] Dual boot IBM thinkpad T40?

[Okan Demirmen]

On Wed 2005.07.27 at 13:40 -0400, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> Hi Bruno, Okan, et al...
> 
> So, here's the plan.
> 
> I'm going to use our campus/corporate licensed XP Pro install media to
> format the drive, make 2 partitions and install XP Pro with our key on
> the first partition.. (plus all the other stuff we install as a base
> like spybot, Norton Corp. Anti-Virus, etc...).
> 
> Then I'll install FreeBSD on the other partition.
> 
> I'm going to blow away IBM's recovery stuff because I've already been
> told that if I set this box up as a dual boot and go to use the IBM
> recovery stuff later it'll just get messed up anyway..
> 
> But.. is that correct?  or.. is there still an argument for leaving the
> IBM recovery partition (which is the second partition) intact?

bruno is right about his comment to my advice.

if you want to hibernate in non-windows, you need a partition basically
the size of your ram at the beginning of your disk (type 16 - os/2 - see
my previous mail for my snippet of that). it seems, for windows, it
hibernates on a file inside the windows partition. if you don't care
about hibernation in non-windows, then 2 partitions - otherwise, 3.

oh, and scratch the ibm recovery partition...nothing to do with
hibernation after all.

okan

> J.
> 
>  Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:02 -0400, bruno wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:33:53AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> > > On Tue 2005.07.26 at 15:47 -0400, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> > > > Okan.. I'm not sure I fully understand your guidance here and whether/how it
> > > > applies to me or not.
> > > > 
> > > > Can you further elucidate?
> > > 
> > > sure. so of all the advice you have been given, it is up to you to
> > > either resize your windows partition down and make room for your new OS,
> > > or wipe your disk and install from scratch.
> > > 
> > > if you do the latter, then my advice applies. if you wipe the whole
> > > disk, when (re)installing your OS's, remember to leave space at the
> > > *beginning* of your drive for hibernation. if you want, just grab an
> > > OpenBSD bootdisk (or whatever) and check out what IBM gave you as a
> > > default disklayout - their first partition is OS/2 - which holds thier
> > > recovery stuff, as well as the hibernation file. if you blow away your
> > > whole disk, you need to create that with room for just the hibernation
> > > file.
> > 
> > Your advice applies in both cases, at least on modern Thinkpads I've
> > seen, where there is no partition in front any more, there is only one
> > in the back of the disk and that is the recovery one. It looks like
> > this is because XP can hybernate with software, and needs no partition
> > anymore.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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