[ltp] pre-installation advice?

[Sanne N]

Hi,
I recently installed dual boot XP and SuSE 9.1 personal on my T40. The 
thread 'GRUB Geom error' in the archives describes my initial experiences 
(sounds promising, huh?).
The system works ok now, but the partition table is a bit of a mess. In 
particular, the recovery partition seemed to cause some problems during 
installation. Suse still won't use the last chunk of my HD (only 30 mb, but 
still..).
As a complete newbie, I am not really in a position to give advice, but for 
what it's worth, this is how I would probably do the thing:
Obtain recovery CDs from IBM
Boot XP, make sure everything is working.
Make sure everything is updated (XP, BIOS. I am just guessing that the less 
you have messed with the system, the more likely the automated update-tools 
are to succeed. I could be wrong)
Disable recovery-partition.
Resize NTFS, create new partitions
Install Suse, keep an eye on how the partitions are being used.

Apart from the HD geometry thing, Suse seems to work fine. Would have 
preferred pro instead of personal, though.

-Sanne


>From: sltp@rhythm.cx
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: [ltp] pre-installation advice?
>Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:13:45 -0400
>
>
>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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