From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 14:59:52 2003 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 6304F37B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 14:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C0243F75 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 14:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from rushlight (allbery@allbery.dsl.telerama.com [205.201.8.182]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h48Lxl319195; Thu, 8 May 2003 17:59:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: <200305082157.OAA02552@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <200305082157.OAA02552@mina.soco.agilent.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052431185.35649.9.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 08 May 2003 17:59:46 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? 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: Thu, 08 May 2003 21:59:52 -0000 On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 17:57, Darryl Okahata wrote: > the CD, without restoring the recovery partition. IIRC (and I'm not > 100% sure), I think restoring the recovery partition causes the entire > disk to be repartitioned, blowing away any existing FreeBSD partition. > I think the entire drive also gets re-dedicated to windows (with the > exception of the recovery partition). Yes. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]