On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:17 -0600, Jim Crumley wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:55:02AM -0600, Patrick McCabe wrote: > > I am going to be buying a laptop computer soon. I assume it will come > > with XP and I will want to convert it to dual-boot Linux. Will there be > > any problems doing this? I have built dual-boot sytems before but not > > with XP. > > The usual advice concerning dual booting systems is pretty much > holds for XP. The one wrinke with XP concerns filesystems. Most > XP installs start out as vfat, but are converted to NT fs on the > first boot of XP. It easier to re-partition vfat, so you may > want to avoid letting XP boot until you have repartitioned. > There are Linux tools for partitioning NT filesystems, but they > hadn't made their way into all distros the last time I dealt with > this problem. > > > Also if anyone really loves (or hates) their laptop I am happy to hear > > recommendations. > > I have been very happy with my Thinkpads, though the recent sale > of IBM PC unit makes me a little more hesitant to recomend that > direction. > > You may want to look at a recent thread that we had on laptops, > http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2004-August/thread.html#67058 > On the sale of IBM, what I have read is that their desktop and laptop line were being manufactured for a few years by another vendor. I'll go back and see if I can find that news article. Jason _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list