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    T61P OS Options

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by wesley133, Mar 17, 2008.

  1. wesley133

    wesley133 Newbie

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    I was thinking of getting Vista Home Premium. I would then partition the hard drive and install Ubuntu...probably only running Vista in VMPlayer.

    If you order the t61p with 4GB, does the 64-bit version of Vista ship with it? Will I be able to see all 4GB?

    Are there known issues with 64-bit drivers?

    What about running 64-bit Ubuntu on the hardware, any known issues?

    I just read the sticky...how the recovery media is not really a windows disk. Will I be able to shrink the windows partition that came with the laptop, install Ubuntu on the rest, and then use VMPlayer to point to the existing windows installation? Has anyone tried doing something like this?
     
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  2. Mtnbiker

    Mtnbiker Notebook Consultant

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    The only 64 OS that will ship w/ a T61P is Vista Business 64. Even Vista Ultimate is only 32. They do not send a Windows disc, but you can request one after the invoice is generated.

    Can't help w/ your Ubuntu questions, I haven't used it for a few years.
     
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  3. bdonkey

    bdonkey Notebook Enthusiast

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    You generally will not be able to point a virtual machine software to an existing installation, since the hardware emulated by the virtual machine software and the hardware that the preinstalled OS expects will be very different.

    Howeve, IIRC, vmWare had some software that "migrated" real machines to virtual machines, that would help you with what you want, but it mostly targeted at enterprise. I don't know if you can actually get your hands on it.
     
    bdonkey, Mar 17, 2008
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