From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 13 13:42:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC7C16A4D0 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:42:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287C343D49 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:42:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A397F3D34; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:42:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Darryl Okahata Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:42:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <40CC2169.5283.6674763F@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200406100044.RAA18314@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: Your message of "Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:19:44 BST." <6.1.0.6.2.20040610001837.03d42df0@gid.co.uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking at an IBM ThinkPad T41 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:42:15 -0000 On 9 Jun 2004 at 17:44, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Bob Bishop wrote: > > > At 23:50 09/06/2004, Randy Bush wrote: > > > > You'll have fun freeing up space for a FreeBSD partition > > > > > >partition magic is your friend > > > > Not when I don't have a copy to hand and I want to get my shiny new laptop > > installed *RIGHT NOW* :-) > > Then BootIt Next Generation is your friend (you can try it out > before buying it): > > http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ > > Boot it from either a floppy or CDROM. Just DO NOT INSTALL IT, but > instead hit, "cancel", to go into maintenance mode, where you can then > resize FAT32/NTFS partitions. BootIt NG worked well for me. Thanks. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/