[nycbug-talk] Dual boot IBM thinkpad T40?

[Joshua S. Freeman]

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?

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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