[Thinkpad] Shrinking boot partition on T60

[Rob Bell]

You could put your diskette-based tools onto a USB stick and boot from 
that.  Works just like a floppy on newer systems.  Plus, a 1GB USB stick 
holds a lot more than a 1.44MB floppy!

Rob

Julian Thomas wrote:
> I'm going to be receiving a new T60 in a day or so (Thanks, Bruce) and
> want to rearrange the hard drive to include a boot manager and several
> additional extended partitions.
> 
> The machine does not have a diskette drive, which means that the tools I
> used (Partition magic 7 diskettes) on a T23 last time I did this won't
> work.
> 
> I've downloaded and burned a CD with Sysrescue, which specifically
> includes GPart-D.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this, either good or bad?
>  

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