BandiPat wrote:
On Thursday 20 December 2007, James Knott wrote:
Chris Arnold wrote:
I am gonna try to explain this as clear as possible. I have an IBM thinkpad T43 and it has that other OS installed. It also has the "recovery" part on the hard drive that i do not want to destroy (as they did not ship recovery cd's with this system). I want to install suse 10.3 onto this ibm laptop without destroying the "recovery" section of the drive. The last time i tried this, i could not figure out how to do this without wipping-out the recovery section on the drive. Can anyone explain how to do this without formatting the entire drive?
I have installed Linux many times on my R31 and never damaged my recovery partition. However, if you're worried, do a custom install, where you specify the partitions to use.
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============ Isn't there something in the instructions that come with these laptops that specifies how to make a Windows disc from the recovery hidden partition? Don't they do that just in case something happens to the drive or the user does something unexpected, like delete it?
Seems to me that buyers have gotten lax in their purchases on all these pre-packaged computers. If you have to pay for Windows, shouldn't the user demand a Windows install disc to come with the purchase? I'm getting off subject though, so read your instructions on how to make an install disc before starting your project.
And the second part, I agree with using gparted to do everything else. I think even Yast2 partitioning tool will allow you to squeeze down Win and make your necessary install partitions for Suse.
regards, Lee
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