[ltp] X22 issues

[Andrew Crawford]

At 08:09 AM 12/16/2001 +1300, you wrote:
> > 3. IBM have not provided a rescue disk but have instead used a rescue
> > partition, which is the strangest idea I've ever heard. What if I need
> > to
> > rescue the machine because the disk crashed? As you can imagine, this is
> > a
> > large partition (~750M) - does anyone know if it can be burnt onto a
> > couple
> > of CDs easily? Has anyone asked for rescue CDs from IBM?
>
>Are you in Australasia by any chance? They did the same to me. I think it 
>has to
>do with Microsoft's attitude to us (they think we're a bunch of pirates). 
>Still
>a very stupid idea though.

My T22 has a restore partition like this.  I bought it directly from IBM 
and am located in the USA.

>As for saving the SERVICE partition, mount it under Linux. See if has the
>programs in the root directory neccessary for booting (command.com is the only
>one I can think of right now). If it is, then copy the files onto two CD's, or
>use a multi-volume tar archive.
>
>Cameron Kerr

... or use something like Partition Image:

    http://www.partimage.org/

Andrew Crawford
ThinkPad@Evermore.com


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