Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:59:16 +0300 From: Paulius Bulotas <paulius@devnull.lt> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR Message-ID: <20040925135916.GA1457@devnull.lt> In-Reply-To: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149> References: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149>
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Hi, On 04 09 25, Thomas Beer wrote: > I consider buying an T41 or T42. What I couldn't check out > on the web, the archive nor in other lists is how to handle > the hidden partition and the existing installation of M$. > For the time being I would like to keep XP and repartition > a 60GB disk. It seems unclear which bootloader c/should be > used and the procedure of installation (generally I'm firm > installing FreeBSD). Any experiences installing FBSD on > a recent T4x with a hidden partition? the procedure should be simple, automatic winxp install from hidden partition uses first primary partition, which could be almost any size (only that it would be enough for install, minimum ~ 3gb?) I had some problems with disk geometry, can't remember exactly how I solved that (as I remember after installation XP complained about incorrect values in partition table). I'm using XP boot loader to boot FreeBSD, so that I don't have to worry when reinstalling XP. I'd suggest using fat32 for XP, but automatic installation will convert fat32 to ntfs. But you can avoid that by doing like this: http://www.chronox.de/x40_linux/linux_on_x40.html#prevent_windows_xp_partition_to_convert_to_ntfs Paulius
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