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by jdhurst » Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:33 am
The T41 uses the Predesktop Area for System and Recovery functions. This was documented in an IBM Whitepaper in January, 2003. If I understand it correctly, it does not use a partition in the regular sense, and allows you to use Partition Magic and create the maximum number of partitions. Unless you really need the space, I would be inclined to leave it in the event of a problem. By all means, get the Recovery CD's as well. Just say you are getting a bigger hard drive or some such reason, and the CD's are free in the first 30 days as has been noted before here.
Now in terms of dual-booting. That is a way, and it works, I would use Partition Magic 8 to shrink your pre-load XP system and provide room for a Linux Partition.
Another way is to use VMware. You can get an educational discount for that. With VMware you can build and use multiple systems within your XP Host system. You can also network the "guest" systems (say Linux) with the "Host" system (XP in this case).
I put the 60Gb 7200-rpm drive in my T41. It is very fast, quiet and cool. I have the XP Host system, a Windows 2000 guest, a Windows NT4 guest, a Windows 98SE guest, a DOS 6.3 guest, and a RedHat Linux guest (soon to be SuSE 9.1). The main guests are 3 to 4Gb each and the whole arrangement takes 25Gb leaving 28Gb free. That totals 53Gb and I think the 60Gb disk is nominally 57 or 58Gb after formatting meaning that 4 or 5Gb was used for the Preload. The point is that I have lots of computers on this T41, I can use at least two simultaneously with the Host, and they are all networked together via NAT.
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). So far I am very impressed. Nice resolution screen, great performance and memory/HD space, and oh-so light. I love this thing! Hopefully I'll be lurking in and out of these forums either helping others with a T41 or getting help myself if a problem were to ever arise.
