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

[Meredydd]

Heh. While we're sharing Tosh linux stories...

I'm typing this on a Satellite 3000-X4, which is a lovely beast. 
Everything cooperates fine, including the recovery CD it's shipped 
with! I just booted my install CD, dropped to a shell (well - it's 
slack, so you get a shell as a matter of course), repartitioned, 
rebooted, used the recovery CD, and crammed 'doze into a few gigs at 
the front of the 15gb I have. After booting into it about five times in 
a year, I decided that enough was enough, and nuked the whole thing. 
With the exception of a few hardware faults (hooray for warranties!), 
it's served me well. Oh, yes - and I recently discovered that the only 
reason I ever booted it into 'doze (Descent: Freespace) has a Linux 
port. So - no regrets whatsoever :-D

Meredydd

On Sunday 13 July 2003 11:29, Marleen Garcia wrote:
> 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
> (new to techtalk)
>
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