[ltp] Installing Linux on a TP40 (2373-75U)

[Jens Kirch]

Hi,

I have successfully resized mz partition on my T40p with WinXP and the
service partition. Do not unhide the service partition, becasue you might loose
it.
For me it worked fine using PM 8.0

Regards,
         Jens

> I'm looking for some advice.
> I have a a 2373-75U which was originally configured by my company w/ W2K
> on a 
> single 36.5Gb NTFS partition on the 40Gb drive.  The remaining space on
> the 
> drive appears to be IBM's hidden partition containing the factory W-XP 
> restore files.
> I tried using Partition Magic 8 to re-partition shrink the NTFS partition
> so I 
> can format the remainder of the drive for Linux and shared partitions. 
> PM8 
> choked halfway through the process and left me to boot to the blue screen
> of 
> death.  After the crash, PM saw a single NTFS partition, but had left an 
> error(s) on it causing the problem.
> I found a thread on another list suggesting that someone else ran into the
> 
> same PM problem.
> I also discovered that by turning off the security feature in the BIOS
> unhid 
> the 3Gb partition.  Clearly IT was unaware of this since they have no
> current 
> plans to install XP and would create a company standard image if they did.
> Since I can't kill W2K and I don't have the permissions to be able to
> restore 
> it if it gets messed up as before, I'm looking for a way to "safely"
> resize 
> the NTFS partition.
> Will turning off the security feature allow PM to work, or is there
> something 
> else about the T40 that is incompatible with PM.  (I've used PM on a W2K
> box 
> at home without problems.)  Are the open source ntfs resizing tools on 
> Knoppix or Mandrake any better?  (I don't need to be able to enlarge the
> ntfs 
> partition since I can always make a second one, if necessary.)

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