Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:46:48 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> Cc: David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk> Subject: Re: Dual boot with XP Message-ID: <20050302064648.GA1940@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <4224F8F2.7000004@scls.lib.wi.us> References: <20050301232235.7a9f7bbb@sparrow> <4224F8F2.7000004@scls.lib.wi.us>
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in message <4224F8F2.7000004@scls.lib.wi.us>, wrote Greg Barniskis thusly... > > David Larkin wrote: > >I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. > > > >The machine will have one IDE disk. > > > >Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without > >having to re-install XP ? > > Consider reinstalling Windows instead of futzing with shrinking > the partition to make room for FreeBSD. ... > The vendor is highly likely to load your laptop's installation of > Windows with all kinds of unwanted cruft, including AOL and > Earthlink dialers, scary automated "helper" software, and gawd > knows what else. IBM does/did that. So, before i installed FreeBSD 5.3 on ThinkPad T42, i read/followed/did Chatchawan Wongsiriprasert's (thanks much CWS) write up .. http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/t42/ http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/t42/setup.html As a result, i got "Windows XP SP2 restore" CD which was originally missing from the package of the laptop as IBM does not include it and asks for ~$40 for it otherwise. Unlike Dell. Darn it, even Lotus software was missing! - Parv --
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