Re: Thinkpad A31p recovery Partition
"Greg Smith" <[email protected]>
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>On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 10:23, Kit Mitchell wrote: >> Given that it has no floppy (just a cd) I was unable >> to create a rescue floppy and so far haven't found >> a recovery cd that is downloadable. Any clues would >> be appreciated before I have to go crying to IBM for >> a probably unsupported fix. > >If it's like the T30 then you can burn a bootable CD with the recovery >floppy image on it and it will happily boot from it. Note that you will >need a Windows box with a floppy to run LOADDSKF.EXE, which you can >either extract from the recovery partition or download (Google will find >you lots of copies of it). IBM supplies the CDs for free for the first 30 or so days after you buy your laptop, if you just call to ask for it. After that they will charge you a modest fee for the CD - about $15 I think. Greg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"