[ltp] Re: several messages

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

Jaime,

> It is taking quite a lot of time, 15 minutes now but I can expect
> several hours maybe... This PC has an old and slow USB connector.
> Anyway I want to try what happens with that.

If it's USB 1 or 1.1 instead of USB2... it'll take a long long time:

USB2 ("hi-speed"): 480Mb/s
USB(1) ("low" or "full-speed" ha!): 1.5Mb/s, 12Mb/s

- easy enough to do the arithmetic based on your disk size.  Yes, the
hard drive caddy is really handy.

> Do you know if I
> can decide which drive to boot from, on BIOS?

Just hit F12 during boot - from there you can choose boot device type. 
To actually choose which boot *drive* you then have to go into the
BIOS - "<Setup>" at the bottom of that menu from memory.  Then flick
through the boot options, find the hard drive, and I think it's F5 to
swap boot order of the drives.

> I just read on the archive that you can ask IBM to send you recovery CDs so
> you dont need that hidden partition... this message was 3 years old on the
> archive, is that true nowadays? Anybody tried this in Spain?

This seems to vary greatly from country to country and salesman to
salesman.  In the UK, mine needed some convincing - they eventually
sent me them as "a favour" but they said they would charge normally.
Others seem to get them easily.

Honey