thinkpad R40 freebsd preperation questions...

[Colin Perkins]

On Thursday, Nov 6, 2003, at 10:50 Europe/London, Jev wrote:
> I'm awaiting delivery of a IBM ThinkPad R40 2722, and I have a few 
> questions in preparation for installing FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.
...
> After I reinstall XP on the newly created partition, I install 
> FreeBSD, is it safe to install the freebsd boot manager just like one 
> would on a normal pc, or will this disrupt IBM's hidden recovery 
> partitions or other hidden things on the hard disk?

Something which doesn't seem to have been mentioned is that you can 
always add FreeBSD to the Windows boot manager, if this is a concern.

See http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

Works very nicely on my X22...

Cheers,
Colin