[Techtalk] report on shiny new Thinkpad, or, Windows sux worse than ever

[Marleen Garcia]

On Saturday 12 July 2003 13:03, Conor Daly wrote:

> 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.

This might be very very useful.

I have a Toshiba s100-1810, dual boot system (WinMe & SuSE). When 
I bought the laptop, it was one of those pre-installed Windows 
things. I shrank the Windows partition, installed SuSE with no 
problems whatsoever. But ... then, when I needed to re-install 
windows, the recovery process froze when I tried to get it to 
recognize the partitions that were there. I thought I was doing 
something wrong! 

And you have these <ahem> "choices". Use the whole HD, or use a 
partition of an already partitioned HD. Only one thing worked, 
and that was feeding Windows the entire HD.

It's one thing to ship a piece of hardware with a software 
product, which for some people might be convenient, but it's
quite another when both the hardware and software manufacturer
try to limit the consumer's choice of what to do with the 
product(s) they bought.

If I had absolutely no use for Windows, I'd have fed the whole 
15Gigs to SuSE long ago.

Marleen
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