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Subject: Re: IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue
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Thomas Beer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I would like to install 5.x on a ThinkPad living with XP.
>I repartitioned the hard drive and get a geometry error
>every time in fdisk. Could I install 4.x and than
>change to 5.3 or what would be the proper way to 
>install 5.x?
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>Cheers Tom
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Hello Thomas,

What error.
Are you saying the error doesn't appear with fdisk from 4.x but only 
with fdisk from 5.x?
What about fdisking under 4.x, quit, start 5.x install.
As far as I know, 4.x and 5.x are seriously different and that change 
you speak of  is headache material.
Perhaps though, you can do a minimum 4.x istall and have a 5.x install 
destroy all the data, but use the existing partions.
Have you done a search for 5.x on thinkpad? I think it its a common fbsd 
victim.
Especially check out any special actions that you may need to take 
concerning a suspend partition
which probably already exists for xp, so the question is; can you use it 
for fbsd?
Don't know the details, but seen the subject discussed here and there.
And don't forget about freesbie.

Dylan.