From: eranian_at_chorus.fr
Date: Mon Feb 06 1995 - 04:25:56 EST
Hello Kevin,
Good to see a new laptop unix user down there !!
I personnally have a 360CSE. 486DX2/50 with 340Mb disk and dual scan
screen. I keep a small partition for DOS/Windows (nearly 40Mb). The other
part of the disk is dedicated to unix. I firstly tested FreeBSD. It runs
well if you use a special kernel because there is a keyboard problem.
Otherwise it seems OK. Now I run Linux (latest snapshot) with no particular
problem. Thought I just have 4Mb (but I plan to extend to 12Mb), I runs
well. Floppy support is now incorporated in the kernel (version 1.1.7x and
higher). You just have to use floppy=thinkpad on the LILO command line for
correct support. The hard disk is still a problem. You need a patched kernel.
The patch is included in the kernel sources. Just have to reverse the #ifdef's.
XFree is hard to configure correctly but it runs in 640x480x256 using the LCD
screen.
Feel free to ask for more infomation concerning Linux and Thinkpad.
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Universit'e PARIS VII | eranian_at_litp.ibp.fr
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