[ltp] pre-installation advice?

[James Knott]

Why is NTFS an issue?  I used Partition Magic to resize and had no 
problems.  Also, it's a good idea to create a FAT32 partition and move 
the "My Documents" folder there, to make it easy to work on files from 
either OS.


Kevin Krause wrote:
> Hello,
> I can only tell from my experience with an X31, but it's a good thing
> _not_ to boot the box before installing Linux, because the disk is
> formatted as VFAT and will be automatically converted to NTFS the first
> time you boot. There's some app in the Startup Items that converts the
> disk which you'd want to remove then. As for generally booting XP before
> installing Linux, it doesn't seem to make any difference, apart from
> mentioned FS conversion.
> Regards,
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
>>Hi everyone. I ordered a T40 today, should be here sometime next week. I
>>plan on dual booting the shipped XP Pro and SuSE 9.1. With that in mind,
>>before booting the laptop for the first time, is there anything I should
>>know? Would it be best to resize the NTFS partition before booting into XP
>>for the first time, or does it not matter?
>>
>>Also, do Thinkpads usually come with some kind of recovery/reimage CD or
>>DVD, or is that on a hard disk partition somewhere, or do I have to order
>>one separately?
>>
>>
>>Thanks
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