[TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP

Greg Brown gregbrown at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 4 14:55:18 EST 2003


On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 06:22 PM, Heath wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:03:08AM +0000, Chip Davis wrote:
>> I just bought a new ThinkPad T30 which came with WindowsXP Pro 
>> installed.
>> Before I can install any OSes I trust (OS/2 Warp/EcomStation, RHL 9) I
>> need to curb XP's hegemony over the 60G disk.  The whole damn thing is
>> formatted as an NTFS C: drive.  XP doesn't take up but 5G (does MVS 
>> need
>> that much DASD space these days?) but then there's that peculiar 
>> matter
>> of the hidden "recovery partition".
>>
>
>
Cool.. "DASD" - haven't heard that one in a while.  Ah, the memories...

Greg




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