From: "Geo." 

"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
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> You still have control over that if you use the IBM image.  You can
> format and partition your HDD before you install the image, and the
> apps aren't part of the image anyway (except for the Thinkpad
> utilities).

The IBM image can only be "restored" to the computer, in order to
do that it must restore to a single partition and that partition when
created gives no options to not allow it to take up the whole drive.
Believe me I tried that first.

Geo.

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