From: Stuart F. Biggar (Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 14:19:36 EDT
At 10:36 AM 5/5/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Hmm... You didn't say anything about *why* you want to partition the drive.
>What are the goals you have in mind there?
>
>Stuart mentioned partitioning his drive to run Unix in a dual-boot. If you
>want to do something like that, I recommend using VMware or Virtual PC. Much
>better than dual-booting:
>
>http://www.vmware.com/
>http://preview.connectix.com/
I would have tried that except for the fact that you can't
run X at 24-bit at native display resolution on Solaris x86
under VMware (at least that is what I have read). I need
to run an image/data analysis program which doesn't work
well except in 24-bit (and the Xi Graphics Xserver running at
24-bit seems to run without crashing whereas I can seemingly
lock up the 24-bit win2000 display/OS at will - reset button
or pull battery and power are the only ways to recover I've
found - I have current BIOS/drivers/OS updates/SPs).
>If the drive comes formatted as FAT32, I would suggest converting it to NTFS
>using the utility provided with Windows 2000. (Click Start/Help, select the
>Index tab, and type in "ntfs".) If it's one big partition, I would leave it
>that way. NTFS can handle a big partition with no problems.
That sounds like a good idea unless you need something other than NTFS
for data sharing between OSs (Solaris can read/write FAT32 but not
ntfs - I don't know about Linux).
Stuart
>Other than that, I would just start using the machine. It will come all set
>up and ready to use.
>
>-Mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Wright [mailto:jeffw_at_bigpond.net.au]
> > Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 2:43 AM
> > To: Thinkpad mailing list
> > Subject: Thinkpad hard drive partitioning under W2K
> >
> >
> > I'm expecting delivery of my new Thinkpad (T21 PIII850, 32Gb HD,
> > 256 Mb RAM,
> > 14.1 SXGA) in the next fwe days. This will be my first experience with
> > WIN2000.
> >
> > The first thing with any new machine is to set up the drive partitions.
> > Does PQ Partition Magic work on WIN2000? Can anyone suggest a better way?
> >
> > More generally, I have my own set of steps for setting up a new machine.
> > Would be interested in knowing what others do as as first steps.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff
> >
> >
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