Re: My review and experiences w/ 760CD

[Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp>]

Serenella Ciongoli <czs00@oes.amdahl.com> wrote:
|> > One thing that is really annoying about the 760CD is the silly
|> > pre-installation, which makes one big FAT partition. Since this
|> > makes the OS/2 installation pretty much useless, you are forced to 
|> > reinstall. I wish they would have two partitions, one empty, and
|> > initially FAT, that you could reformat to HPFS, oh well!
|> 
|> I fully agree with you. When I ordered my TP760CD from PC Direct, I
|> specifically asked if they would repartition the system to my specifications
|> (I was even willing to pay a fee for it!)  but they clearly stated it was
|> not a service they were willing to prpovide.

There is a DOS utility out there that allows you to repartition on the fly.
It hacks off some unused part of a pre-existing partition and makes a new
partition out of it, leaving the old one untouched except for its size.
I used it to create a partition on which I could put Linux.