[nycbug-talk] Dual boot IBM thinkpad T40?

[Okan Demirmen]

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.

if you do go down this route, then feel free to ask more, but most
advice on the list has to be merely size down the existing windows one
and install your OS in the newly freed space.

okan

> TIA,
> 
> J.
> 
> 
> On 7/22/05 6:28 PM, "Okan Demirmen" <okan at demirmen.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri 2005.07.22 at 16:17 -0400, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> >> I recently acquired a spanking brand new T40.  It has XP Pro preinstalled.
> >> I'm seriously considering setting it up either as a dual boot XP Pro/FreeBSD
> >> laptop or simply FreeBSD...
> >> 
> >> I've never attempted either one of these tasks before.  Any advice,
> >> recommendations, etc. from this crowd?
> > 
> > whatever you do, if you want hibernation, save space at the *beginning*
> > of your disk, ram+video ram+a few more bytes. this is mine on OpenBSD:
> > 
> >         Starting       Ending       LBA Info:
> > #: id    C   H  S -    C   H  S [       start:      size   ]
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  0: 16    0   1  1 -  270 216 55 [          63:     4096000 ] OS/2 hidden
> > 
> > (yes a little big, but i have *a lot* of ram)
> > 
> > use tphdisk after creating/formating the slice to create the hibernate
> > file...i'm sure there are instructions out there somewhere..
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