[TriLUG] New Thinkpad T23!

[Kevin Flanagan]

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 20:19, Chris Merrill wrote:

The recovery CDs are fine, but for the most part you need OS CDs, and a
collection of drivers on CD for the machine is all.  I never like the
vendor installations anyways.  I expect to reload systems every now and
then.  

I would however recommend that you get the drivers downloaded and burned
to CD for the OS that you expect to run, Windows ones, Linux stuff too
all on a CD before you get carried away.  IBM has a history of not
functioning with the default OS installations.  Most Compaq branded
systems will run, but you need to get better drivers for some things,
NIC etc. 



Good luck,



  Kevin

> Tom Bryan wrote:
> > I just bought an IBM T23 thinkpad.  It came with two primary partitions:
> <snip>
> > I was thinking that I could somehow use dd (from knoppix or tomsrtbt) and 
> > stream the partition table and the /dev/hda2 data over my network to my 
> > workstation which has plenty of disk space.  Does that sound sane?  Is there 
> > an easier way?
> 
> Yup.  Call IBM and ask them for a recovery CD.  They sent me one
> for my T23 for free, when I asked for it.  The CD will allow you
> to do a full restoration of Windows...it might have even restored
> the recover partition (I don't remember - I would have deleted it,
> anyway).
> 
> HTH,
> Chris
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Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net>