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?
What I would do... is... Buy another 2.5" drive, and install it IN PLACE OF the original hard drive (and for protection of the pins, etc, put it inside a 2.5" drive USB carrier. This way, if you ever want to boot to LoseDOS (or sell the machine), just swap the drives again (and if you get a new laptop...Linux is already installed on the 2.5" disk...boot to run-level 3...play with the graphics and other hardware that needs explicit set up..and voila, you're off and running. but that's just me (sometimes, I would just rather spend the money for the convenience, as long as I'm also getting a tangible object in the whole process). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
