From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 02:46:38 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 DB4D716A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from quintero.emmplus.ie (quintero.emmplus.ie [62.17.172.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95CC43F93 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jev@ecad.org) Received: from ecad.org (manson.emmplus.ie [62.17.172.66]) by quintero.emmplus.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35AE3C9435 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:45:36 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3FAA2761.8090808@ecad.org> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:50:09 +0000 From: Jev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: thinkpad R40 freebsd preperation questions... 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, 06 Nov 2003 10:46:39 -0000 Hi All, I'm awaiting delivery of a IBM ThinkPad R40 2722, and I have a few questions in preparation for installing FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The unit is going to come with WinXP PRO pre-installed, I wish to run both XP FreeBSD. I have read about IBM's "recovery partition" and I understand that I need to delete the main XP partition and create a new smaller partition for XP. I have only heard of people using partition magic to do this, can I do this with fdisk, or other? Does this partition have to be FAT32 or can I use NTFS? After I reinstall XP on the newly created partition, I install FreeBSD, is it safe to install the freebsd boot manager just like one would on a normal pc, or will this disrupt IBM's hidden recovery partitions or other hidden things on the hard disk? One not so tech question (and, a XP question at that!! :), From what I have read on this and other lists, Thinkpads don't ship with a re-installation disk for XP, they have the "Recovery Partition" instead. It is my understanding that If I request the re-installation disk from IBM within the first 30 days I will get it free. Has anyone had success with getting their reinstall CDs with out extra charge from IBM? Thanks, -Jev