From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 13:53:06 EST
Stuart..
they ALL appear to be winmodems, these days..
PQ Magic for the HDD reconfigueration.. :-)
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart F. Biggar" <Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.Arizona.EDU>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: tool for shrinking a partition on an A21p
> I just got an A21p (HTU) with Intel mini-PCI ethenet
> card. The modem part appears to be a Xircom (identified
> as a Xircom MPCI+ Modem 56 WinGlobal). Drat, a win modem!
> Why doesn't IBM ship a real hardware modem so it would
> be useful with something other than Windows?
>
> As the A21p just might run Sun Solaris 8, I need to
> shrink the FAT32 single partition so I can free some
> space for Solaris to install into (it needs unpartitioned
> space on the drive).
>
> Any recommendations for commercial or free tools that
> would do a reliable job of reconfiguring the disk.
> Disk is the 32 GB IBM shipped with W2K - I haven't
> added much yet so the drive is mostly empty.
>
> Or other suggestions?
>
> I do like the 1600x1200 display running at 32-bit/pixel.
> Really sharp. Fonts are a bit small but with my reading
> glasses, everything seems fine so far. Sure is nice
> having a built in ethernet card as compared with PCMCIA
> on earlier ThinkPads (I've used a 755CX, 765D and 770E).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
>
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