[ltp] pre-installation advice?

[Rich Smrcina]

Indeed.  I had to buy PM Version 8, which contains a bootable CD, since
the T40 doesn't have a diskette drive.  But I have had no relevant
problems with RH9 or SuSE 9 on my T40.  Everything (hardware wise) works
great.  I haven't tried suspending or hibernating, but there seems to be
plenty of experient with that on the list.

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 15:24, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 sltp@rhythm.cx wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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?
> 
> Call IBM and ask for recovery disks. They'll mail it (within 1 month
> of purchase in US)
> 
> Then - you can disable the Recovery Partition in BIOS - and
> re-partition the disk.  Now using the recovery CDs - you can restore
> WinXP in one of the partitions.
> 
> Alternatively you could use other partitioning tools. I've used
> partition magic - to repartiton - after booting into XP..
> 
> Satish
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Rich Smrcina
illustro Systems International
rsmrcina at illustro.com

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