in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Greg Barniskis thusly... > > David Larkin wrote: > >I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. > > > >The machine will have one IDE disk. > > > >Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without > >having to re-install XP ? > > Consider reinstalling Windows instead of futzing with shrinking > the partition to make room for FreeBSD. ... > The vendor is highly likely to load your laptop's installation of > Windows with all kinds of unwanted cruft, including AOL and > Earthlink dialers, scary automated "helper" software, and gawd > knows what else.
IBM does/did that. So, before i installed FreeBSD 5.3 on ThinkPad T42, i read/followed/did Chatchawan Wongsiriprasert's (thanks much CWS) write up .. http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/t42/ http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/t42/setup.html As a result, i got "Windows XP SP2 restore" CD which was originally missing from the package of the laptop as IBM does not include it and asks for ~$40 for it otherwise. Unlike Dell. Darn it, even Lotus software was missing! - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
