[ltp] A22m && Fdisk to resize

E M Recio linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:30:29 -0500 (EST)


The mobilix webpage on the A22m is almost unecessary except as a
confirmation to prospective buyers that the machine works great under
linux.

I ran into *no* problems installing Redhat 7.2 on my A22m (p/n:
2628-T1U) except that the video card's memory was undetectable, but I
just plugged in 8MB, and that seemed to work perfectly for hi-colors at
1024x768.

Another issue I ran into is that I didn't have PQ-Partition Magic. So I
had to resize the partitions 'dirtily'. I used linux's version of fdisk
(NOT disk druid) to resize my partitions. Basically, I didn't touch
hda2, and I resized hda1 from 30gig to 6gig. Since windows was only
using 1gig, this resizeing didn't damage any of the data. I added the
dos partition to grub and now can boot windows/dos at will.

After resizing though, windows still insisted that it had 27gb free.
Since I didn't want this to byte me in the back later, I decided to
restore the windows partition. For this I *needed* the recovery disk
from IBM's recovery partition utility. I finally found it at home
somewhere...but without it I would have been totally screwed. Is there a
place on the net where I can submit a dd'd image of the boot disk incase
there's someone else out there with the same problem?

Anyways, restoring worked perfectly. And now I have a *REALLY* nice
lappie where Linux is able to use ALL the hardware. Btw: since I hate
the nipple mouse, i decided to get an optical mini-mouse from radio
shack ($30 p/n: 26-554) and that also worked perfectly.

Radio Shack Mouse:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F003%5F010%5F001%5F000&product%5Fid=26%2D554
IBM Model:
http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=1932413&cntrfnbr=1&prmenbr=1&cntry=840&lang=en_US&scrfnbr=73&shoptype=D
Distribution:
http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/7-2_standard.html

-- 

Best Regards,
E. M. Recio

****************************************************
* Email: < polywog@navpoint.com > ICQ: < 458043 >  *
* Homepage: < http://polywog.navpoint.com >        *
****************************************************


----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list -----
The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html