On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: > > > > > >>Jerry, > > >> > > >>You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get > > >>around > > >>the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the > > >>nail on the head! I will try this soon. > > > > > >Yup. Basically, you just ignore it, leave it alone - anyway as long > > >as MS-SP isn't bothered by it. > > > > > >////jerry > > > > I have a HP laptop which came with a recovery partition. I don't have > > windows on the laptop now but I used to and: > > > > a) somewhere there is a utility to make recovery dvds which do the same > > job so you can remove the recovery partition. > > b) there is a HP backup and recovery utility - you might have to install > > it from the HP software. There is an option to remove the recovery > > partition with it. > > > Sure, you can nuke the vendor maintenance slice if you want to and get > rid of the MS stuff as well at the same time. But, the OP seemed to > want to keep those and add FreeBSD to the system. > > ////jerry
Thats how I read it too. That said I'll recognize you guys as the experts- its been years since I had to dual boot! I seem to have forgotten a lot of it... :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
