thinkpad R40 freebsd preperation questions...

[Randy Bush]

> Files may also work, if you have a FAT partition, but the suspend to
> disk partition certainly does work (even if you have a FAT partition)
> and the XP installation on my X30 automatically converts itself to
> NTFS (the recovery CD install finishes the install and then converts
> to NTFS) so on this particular machine I didn't have the choice.
> I would assume that other modern IBMs runing XP are the same.

brand new t40p with 60gb drive had only one partition, and it was
54gp.  i figure recovery stuff etc. is hidden above the 54g, but
don't really know (plan to beg for the cdroms on monday).  but there
was no visible (with freebsd fdisk or partition magic) hibernate
partition.

randy