Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:41:36 +1000 From: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP Message-ID: <1232149296.1190.28.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20090116230533.GA39855@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <a2644a850901140613y1a53be7bs8cb67f54ee39f60a@mail.gmail.com> <20090114181302.GC28762@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <a2644a850901141305m5ca6242cw686170542a3b75dc@mail.gmail.com> <20090114220811.GB29991@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <497107D4.4000107@onetel.com> <20090116230533.GA39855@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > > > > > >>Jerry, > > >> > > >>You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get > > >>around > > >>the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the > > >>nail on the head! I will try this soon. > > > > > >Yup. Basically, you just ignore it, leave it alone - anyway as long > > >as MS-SP isn't bothered by it. > > > > > >////jerry > > > > I have a HP laptop which came with a recovery partition. I don't have > > windows on the laptop now but I used to and: > > > > a) somewhere there is a utility to make recovery dvds which do the same > > job so you can remove the recovery partition. > > b) there is a HP backup and recovery utility - you might have to install > > it from the HP software. There is an option to remove the recovery > > partition with it. > > > Sure, you can nuke the vendor maintenance slice if you want to and get > rid of the MS stuff as well at the same time. But, the OP seemed to > want to keep those and add FreeBSD to the system. > > ////jerry Thats how I read it too. That said I'll recognize you guys as the experts- its been years since I had to dual boot! I seem to have forgotten a lot of it... :)
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