Re: thinkpad R40 freebsd preperation questions...

Dave Tweten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
>Not true for the XP recovery CDs I have for my X30. It installed windows,
>yes, but didn't finish the install - barfed half way through and never
>installed many of the required drivers.

>The only way I found to do a clean and full reinstall from the CDs was to
>delete every partition on the disk and then reinstall from CD. 

Sure you gave Windows a big enough partition to install into?  Once you do 
what you said, you're back behind the same eight ball as with the original 
delivery.
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