Solved: Thinkpad A31p recovery Partition

[Kit Mitchell]

Greg, Dave, Brandon, etal.

Thanks for your replies and the correct answer was 
get the cd from IBM - apart from the reinstall issues
it gives the opportunity to free up the space.

The not so correct answer was change the partition types
recovery partition (ad0s3) 28 -> 12 
original partition (ad0s1) 12 -> 28
(actually originally 7 for ntfs)
and boot to the recovery partition as DOS
using the FreeBSD boot manager.

Interestingly this does not appear to include the 
useful goodies like drivers for the WLAN card so 
until the cd arrives I'll have no network or any 
of the extras that IBM need to add to windows so 
that everything works.

The BSD drivers for the card work out-of-the-box.

Thanks again 

--kit 

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