From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 25 12:59:19 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 AEA7D16A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:59:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gid.co.uk [194.32.164.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B888943D46 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:59:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.11.7/8.11.6) id i8PCxGt39975; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:59:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20040925135008.043e0e98@gid.co.uk> X-Sender: rbmail@gid.co.uk (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:59:09 +0100 To: mailings@analogon.com From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149> References: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR 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: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:59:19 -0000 Hi, At 10:46 25/09/2004, Thomas Beer wrote: >Dear All, > >I consider buying an T41 or T42. What I couldn't check out >on the web, the archive nor in other lists is how to handle >the hidden partition and the existing installation of M$. >For the time being I would like to keep XP and repartition >a 60GB disk. It seems unclear which bootloader c/should be >used and the procedure of installation (generally I'm firm >installing FreeBSD). Any experiences installing FBSD on >a recent T4x with a hidden partition? On my (new) T41, I repartitioned the HDD (AFAIR I booted a FBSD CD and used fdisk). This blows away the WinXP installation which I then restored from the hidden partition (hit the Access IBM key on boot - it doesn't seem to care that the C partition is now smaller but there must be a minimum size). I believe others have used Partition Magic successfully to resize NTFS partitions on these machines. YMMV, of course. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 940 1295