[Techtalk] report on shiny new Thinkpad, or, Windows sux worse
than ever
Conor Daly
conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Sat Jul 12 12:03:56 EST 2003
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:13:18PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Carla Schroder thought:
>
> There is zero flexibility. I tried creating a partition to install windows on,
> leaving room for a Linux install, and the damn recovery CD ate the whole hard
> drive.
I came across this which might help...
http://www.fnal.gov/projects/ckm/ckm_cluster/toshiba-1805/#repartitioning
Essentially, you boot from the "recovery" CD, ctrl-c to stop the disk
pantitioning, run a command to record the disk pantitioning is complete
and reboot. This time, the "recovery" process sees that the disk is ready
to format and so doesn't partition it first.
Conor
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