[ltp] Re: T41 Recovery CD

[Nick Bower]

Thanks helpful information thanks Aaron.

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 15:13, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> 	My experience was the T40/T42 recovery was:
> 
>  - The license key you have is an OEM key, so presumably the disc is too.  
>    The key won't work with a retail or MSDN WinXP CD, but it does work
>    with Dell WinXP CDs.  I haven't tried the converse (retail key and IBM
>    disc), but based on the above I would guess that it won't work.  Plus,
>    on account of the process you followed, I suspect the disc isn't
>    "identical" to a standard OEM install disc.
> 
>  - Recovery deletes the first partition and then installs to the first
>    block of contiguous free space (which could be bigger than the original
>    first partition if there was free space after it).  Later partitions
>    are safe.  The partition must be at least 8GB or so or else the
>    recovery will either fail or produce a corrupt Windows installation.  
>    You can save a little space if you intervene during some of the IBM
>    software installs and reduce the swap size and disable hibernation, but
>    you have to time this carefully.
> 
>  - If you install from a recovery CD, you should get all your drivers and
>    pre-installed software back.  If you install from a "plain" Windows XP
>    disc, you have three choices.  1) download everything from IBM, burn it
>    to CD/DVD, and then install drivers etc. from there 2) download
>    ethernet drivers, copy to the new machine via CD or floppy, install,
>    then download and install the rest once network access is working.  
>    The only thing I know if that you can't download is the CD/DVD software
>    (playback and burning) -- I think they only have updates on the site.
>    3) copy everything from the drivers and apps directories on the
>    original Windows XP install onto CDs or a DVD and then use that to
>    reinstall all the drivers after you've reinstalled WinXP.  Option #3
>    has the least hassle, but won't result in the most updated drivers.
> 
> 	On the T40, I used the recovery CD and then uninstalled or 
> disabled all the stuff I didn't want.  On the T42, I saved all the 
> important stuff to DVD, installed from a Dell CD, then installed the 
> drivers and apps I cared about from the DVD.  Both ways worked fine.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> > Ok, I did it and also slipstreamed SP2 on top of it without any problems.
> > 
> > Except for running the MS-executables of bcd and the service packs
> > I did everything under Linux, I used the -b of bcd to get the iso file
> > and burn it on another machine where the burner is.
> > 
> > Now I have a CD labelled MSWXPPro_SP2_en, but haven't tried it yet,
> > as I have a few more doubts:
> > 
> > - Is that now a generic MS XP Pro install disk, or is it IBM specific?
> > 
> > - How well behaved are they these days, do I risk my Linux by using
> >   it to reinstall my MS partition?  (Recovery clobbers everything.)
> > 
> > - How should I proceed in order to install the IBM drivers and
> >   extra stuff with the least hassle?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Jürgen
> > 
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