[ltp] My new T42: Ubuntu, fan, acpi sleep

[Eben King]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> I've got a brand new T42 yesterday (model 2373-FWG).  I pulled out my
> Ubuntu Warty install CD, discovered that it doesn't support NTFS
> resizing, said to myself "ah, well, I can always just reinstall Windows
> from the recovery partition" and blew my WinXP away.  Mistake: when I
> try to boot from the recovery partition, I get a progress bar at the
> bottom, and then a blue screen saying "System error" and two lines of
> meaningless numbers.  Oh well, I don't really need Windows anyway.

You might want to get the XP CDs from IBM then.  And since you can't use the
recovery pseudo-partition, you might as well nuke it and get the space back,
unless you might figure out a way to use it (safe mode?).

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