From: Stuart F. Biggar (Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 08:59:49 EDT
At 07:43 PM 5/5/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>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?
With my A21p with Win2000, the 32 GB drive was partitioned as a single
FAT32 partition. I used partition magic to shrink it to about 15 GB
so I could install Sun Solaris 8 (UNIX). PQ PM worked fine as does
Solaris.
>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.
Install UNIX in a dual boot setup. Setup UNIX to be able to read/write
to a partition that Windows uses in order to share data. Download any
service packs for the OS and install. Install apps and service packs/patches.
Then I attempt to figure out what MS has changed to break things that
worked with the previous version (for example, the PPP script I used with
NT4 SP6a on my 770E doesn't work with the DUN in Windows2000 - at least
I haven't been able to make it work yet). Also, a DOS program I used
to be able to run fine on the 770E under NT now crashes my A21p which
has current bios, drivers (video, trackpoint, etc), and service packs.
Stuart
>Thanks,
>Jeff
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