[KLUG Members] Multiple OS Installation on Thinkpad laptop

[Sanjay Chigurupati]

I am thinking of installing   FreeBSD, Open BSD and few flavors of Linux 
on thinkpad.


My thinkpad has XP professional pre-installed on it.  It also uses a 
hidden partition to store diagnostic tools,
which are required for recovery. 

I would like to keep the IBM diagnostic and tutorial software as well as 
the Burning software as they are
pretty good and I dont think I can get a rebate for XP after using  for a 
few months.


My problem here is that Open BSD and Free BSD both require primary 
partitions. 

It looks like I might run into partition limit imposed by PC Bios.

Other thing : is it possible to write an image from  a partition with  lot 
of free space to another partition with similar space minus the free 
space, where both the partitions are on different disks.

Any work arounds suggested?

Thanks,
Sanjay

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