From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 23:28:49 EDT
IMHO the earlir distros, (such as Red Hat 6 ) were more Thinkpad friendly.
I've had fits with the numlock function ramdomly turning it's self on and
off in later distros.
There are several sample X86Configs on the web for ED's that work.
The iinstall (X) screws things up royally.
rhochhalte_at_cableone.net wrote:
> My name's Rick and I recently acquired a (used) IBM Thinkpad 760ED.
>
> Initial system: P133, 1024x768 12.1" TFT LCD, 32M RAM, 2.1G HDD,
> CDROM, external floppy drive.
>
> Upgrades applied: Memory upgraded to 80M. PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet.
>
> Upgrades in the works: 6.4G HDD on order (hope it gets here real
> soon.)
>
> Originally, it arrived with Windows 95 restored to the hard drive but
> no OS Key (in other words, the restoration was incomplete). So I
> spent several hours installing Windows 98SE but I eventually want to
> make the system
//
> a dual boot Win98/Linux setup.
//
I have this on a ED, XL, and a 380XD.
Sorry, but the XL and the 380 are much better Linux
machines because of problems with the DSP sound and modem
on the ED.
> I'm looking at messing
> around with the Debian distro. (I currently run Slackware on my
> desktop machine.) I also wan't to move my windows stuff to the laptop
> so that the desktop machine is strictly running Slackware as I don't
> run Windows very often (just games and a couple of other progs that
> either have no Linux replacement or I have yet to find an equivalent
> program that I like).
>
> So far I'm very pleased with the unit.
>
> Rick
Cheers, Bert
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