[ltp] IBM Recovery CDs, partitions

[Bill Sheppard]

Michael Kaiser wrote:
> I bought a R52 last week. As I intend to have WXPP and Linux on this
> laptop, I decided to play around with some Linux live CDs.
> Unfortunately, I damaged the partition table and thje pre desktop area
> got lost. I ordered the recovery CDs yesterday, but they told me, it
> might take up to 9 day. :-( I don't want to wait that long, so I plan
> to do a "clean" partitioning beforehand and install Linux. Does this
> makes sense? Or will the recovery CDs wipe the harddrive again and my
> Linux will get lost?
>   
I ordered the recovery disks today, just to have them, and the customer
service rep warned me that (at least on my T42) they will wipe the whole
disk to install the recovery partition, although when installing from
the recovery partition it will respect other partitions.  So in this
case you'd want to restore the recovery partition, then install Linux. 
Of course, it appears that's what hoses the recovery partition, unless
you use NTLDR instead of Grub.

Bill
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