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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.infinex.com!news1.isp.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!hustle.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!starport!steve From: steve@starport.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky) Subject: Re: FreeBSD & XFree86 on ThinkPad Sender: usenet@starport.com (news) Lines: 45 Organization: Grand Central Starport Originator: steve@central.starport.com Message-ID: <STEVE.96Oct5235350@central.starport.COM> References: <52q926$q78@scream.auckland.ac.nz> <52rm3a$a4l@helena.MT.net> <32535A20.25A3@synergy.net> In-Reply-To: "Richard T. Robino"'s message of Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:16:00 -0600 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 06:53:50 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28771 comp.os.linux.hardware:52520 In article <32535A20.25A3@synergy.net> "Richard T. Robino" <rrobino@synergy.net> writes: Nate Williams wrote: > > In article <52q926$q78@scream.auckland.ac.nz>, > Peter Dobcsanyi <P.Dobcsanyi@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > >Dear *, > > > >I am planning to buy an IBM ThinkPad 365X notebook computer (Pentium > >100, 16Mbyte RAM, SVGA dual-scan). What are my chances to install > >FreeBSD / Linux and XFree86 on it? *** lengthy post, sorry *** I am in the middle of finding/installing some decent implementation of unix on my older Thinkpad and have been working on getting linux up on mine for about a week. I am having a difficult time with RedHat Linux, I recently installed RedHat Rembrandt (beta) on a 755C. 1. If the new Thinkpads are like the old ones in this respect: disk geometry, find out from IBM exactly what the heads, cylinders, and sectors per track are _before_ installing - it may save you making a root disk. Use the Linear global option to LILO. This works even if Linux and the BIOS disagree on the disk's geometry. Just make sure the root partition is in the low 500Mb. > >I also would like to have a PC card Ethernet+Modem, what model should I > >buy? I have an IBM PCMCIA Ethernet card and modem, both work fine with the drivers RedHat has in Rembrandt. I imagine that the IBM combo that's being heavily discounted these days would also work. 2. Hard drive installs are the easiest for those of us without a local CD drive ... I installed using FTP from a local system; of course NFS would also work. A previous attempt at an FTP install directly from RedHat's site on the Internet failed miserably--the install script isn't very robust in the face of FTP timeout errors. The Debian distribution has a small editor (I forget its name) on the install disk; it can help get you out of lots of tight spots. -- / Steve Savitzky \ Cyberspace: an alternate universe where magic works /__ / h:steve@starport.com \ http://www.starport.com/people/steve/ /___ \ w:steve@crc.ricoh.com/ http://www.crc.ricoh.com/people/steve/ \___ \____ Kids' page: ___/__ http://www.crc.ricoh.com/people/steve/kids.html __\__