Lenovo ThinkPad R61i User Manual

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Note:

If you create a new ISO image, you must have at least 400 MB of free space

available on the system drive in order to copy the directory trees and build the
ISO. Moving this much data around is a hard disk drive-intensive task, and might
take fifteen or more minutes on some computers.

Creating the recovery ISO file and burning to a CD sample script
file

To create the recovery ISO file and burn it to a CD sample script file, prepare the
following code.

:: Make an ISO file here - ISO will reside in c:\SWTOOLS\rrcd

Note:

The following seven lines of code (in bold font) are needed only if the

system is not rebooted after install.

:: Set up the environment

set PATH=%PATH%;%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\Python24

set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.PYW;.PYO;.PYC;.PY

set TCL_LIBRARY=%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\Python24
\tcl\tcl8.4

set TK_LIBRARY=%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\Python24
\tcl\tk8.4

set PYTHONCASEOK=1

set RR=c:\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\

set PYTHONPATH=C:\Program files\Common Files\Lenovo\logger

:: The next line will create the ISO silently and not burn it

c:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\Python24\python c:\Program Files\
\Common Files\Lenovo\spi\mkspiim.pyc /scripted

:: The next line will create the ISO with user interaction and not burn it

:: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\Python24\python c:\Program Files\
\Common Files\Lenovo\spi\mkspiim.pyc /scripted /noburn

Scenario 3 - Installing on Type 12 service partition

This section describes installing Rescue and Recovery on a Type 12 service
partition. You must have the following in order to install Rescue and Recovery into
a type 12 service partition:
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The SP.PQI file. This file includes base bootable files to create a service partition.

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PowerQuest PQDeploy

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Latest installer for Rescue and Recovery

There are several options related to installing the Rescue and Recovery
environment in a service partition.

Note:

The type 12 partition must reside in the last used entry in the partition

table on the same drive that contains Windows. You can use the information on
BMGR32 to determine where the type 12 partition resides on the hard disk drive.
For more information, see “Rescue and Recovery Boot manager control (BMGR32)”
on page 90.

To perform the installation, complete the following procedure:
1.

Leave at least 700 MB of unallocated free space at the end of the drive.

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