[ale] new t-40 thinkpad...

[Christopher Fowler]

Here is what I did on my hp ZE1250.

1) Used LNX-BBC to fdisk the hard drive.
2) Created 34 partitions.  1 for XP
3) Used the reocery CD's to format an install
   on new partition.  Did not do another fdisk.
4) Installed Linux
5) Finished


On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:57:13PM -0400, David S. Jackson wrote:
> Howdie!
> 
> I'm the proud owner of a new t-40 thinkpad.  Of course it came
> with WinXP Slo err, Pro.  Can the new install routines resize
> ntfs partitions?  
> 
> I'm so used to installing the old fashioned way, with boot floppy
> or CD-ROM, and to bare metal, that I'm uncertain how to add an OS
> to an existing windows install.  I figer I might as well keep the
> xp since I've paid for it and there's no hope of returning it
> without the machine too (and thus losing a nice piece of
> hardware).  I usually use a Slack or Debian distro, or sometimes
> FreeBSD.  But you gurus must have installed to a laptop recently.
> I'd like to avoid blasting the windows until I've had a chance to
> play a bit; the last distro of windows I've seen was Me, and that
> sucked so my wife went back to 98se.  (For the daughter's
> edutainment games, mostly.)  
> 
> Anyway, I figured I'd start with Slack.  How do you resize an
> NTFS partition?
> 
> -- 
> David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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