Excellent page regarding the new disk install on the 3500. Two things you may consider adding...

(1) The bit about installing as second drive on ribbon doesn't always work;

(a) many laptop drives do not come with a good jumper diagram.

(b) If your other drive is also fat32, when you are building the partitions in "fdisk" it will not let you set the new drive as "active", and consequently will not boot in the tablet. If you don't have any other fat32 drives it will automatically make it active, which I suspect the situation you were working in, and why you did not mention it in your tutorial.

If it is not clear from the above, the drive must be set as "active" before moving to the tablet.

(( side note: in a linux install, you do the whole install in the other machine, then move to the tablet, et. al. and manually run the x config generator again on the new platform. In this scenario, you must do first install as master on primary controller, or it wont boot, messes up GRUB ))

(2) Having done this my self more than once, and not just with tablets, adding a few files to the "big floppy", the harddrive that will boot to c:>, really speeds up the install. You have probably seen the warning "blah blah blah, SMARTDRIVE will greatly improve performance blah blah blah" when installing, it is no joke. dumping smartdrv.exe and himem.sys from the same version of win that you have sys'd the HD and then a config.sys and autoexec.bat, one line each, to activate himem and smartdrv cuts that copying files from hours to minutes.

here is the text for those two config files:
[start config.sys]

device=himem.sys

[end config.sys]


[start autoexec.bat]

c:\Smartdrv.exe /r

[end autoexec.bat]


I went through all this with the 3400 a few years ago, used it for a few months as my primary machine to see if I could make the switch to tablet.

Now it is a nice Network attached MP3 player in a plate stand on top of my home stereo.